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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:51:46 +0100
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To: Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] ext/mysql deprecation in 5.5
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi Jan,

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl> wrote:
> 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.

Drupal 7 supports PDO. There is no such thing like mysqli or mysql as driver.

> 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 there is a crash, a bug at bugs.php.net should be reported.

> 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.

And? Where is the problem? The idea is to have it on in dev not in prod.

Cheers,
--
Pierre

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