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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] ext/mysql deprecation in 5.5
From: phpdev@ehrhardt.nl (Jan Ehrhardt)

Kris Craig in php.internals (Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:33:55 -0800):
>We also know that E_DEPRECATED works when other approaches do not.  I would
>point you all to the famous example of Drupal 7, which would break
>completely due to a flurry of E_DEPRECATED warnings (if display_errors was
>set to on) being triggered as of 5.3 due to their continued use of
>magic_quotes_gpc and magic_quotes_runtime.  When Drupal 8 was released some
>time later, the code was fixed so that it no longer used those out-dated
>functions.

http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core
Drupal 8 will not be released before August 2013. Maybe in the current
core the E_DEPRECATED warnings are gone, but certainly not in many of
the modules.

People are still switching to Drupal7. And Drupal7 throws the watchdog
full with E_DEPRECATED warnings when it is running onder PHP5.4. The
views module has issues with PHP 5.4, but some modules even let Drupal7
under PHP5.4 crash completely:
http://drupal.org/node/1831402

If E_DEPRECATED stays in ext/mysql even after it has moved to PECL, the
result will be that more and more people turn E_DEPRECATED warnings off.

Jan