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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:52:01 +0100
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To: Ronald Chmara <ronabop@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: ext/mysql deprecation
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Ronald Chmara <ronabop@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Arvids Godjuks
> <arvids.godjuks@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It took me like 10 minutes of "Search & Replace" in my IDE to make a switch
>> to mysqli and a few more hours to validate that everything is ok and catch
>> places where search & replace failed. The amount of work is overestimated,
>> especially if you have a regexp capable search & replace.
>
> 10 minutes x 50 billion
> (http://www.statisticbrain.com/total-number-of-pages-indexed-by-google/
> ) is not a trivial number. Heck, assume even only 10% of the web pages
> on the internet use mysql_* calls, and you're still talking 50 billion
> minutes, or about 95 thousand years. At 1%, it's only 9 thousand
> years, possibly greater than the entire written and recorded history
> of the human race.
>
> Considering there are a huge quantity of PHP end users (Drupal,
> Joomla, Wordpress, Magento, etc.) who don't even know what 'regexp'
> means, and would take a lot more time than ten minutes just trying to
> understand why "my website is broken, can you fix it?".... yeah.
>
> On the less pessimistic side, since I work as a PHP site
> author/maintainer for a living, a pool of 9,000 years of work would
> suit me just fine. Even 900 years would equate to a huge jobs program
> for my field.

Can we stop about arguing about the removal? It is not happening and
won't until 6+. We are talking about adding a E_DEPECRATED notice,
nothing else.


Cheers,
--
Pierre

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