Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:77892 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 3274 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2014 07:54:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Oct 2014 07:54:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:37261] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id A5/60-01239-3A33A345 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 03:54:14 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85E8310C054; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:54:08 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:54:08 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Kris Craig cc: Nikita Popov , PHP internals list In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7 From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Kris Craig wrote: > On Oct 11, 2014 1:52 PM, "Nikita Popov" wrote: > > > > We currently have a number of deprecated features, which we likely > > want to remove in PHP 7. I've created a tracking RFC listing > > deprecated functionality (if I missed something, please tell): > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_deprecated_functionality_in_php7 > > > > I expect many of these are no-brainers (like assigning new > > by-reference), but other items like removal of ext/mysql may need > > additional consideration. > > > > Unless there are items that are particularly contested, I'd like to > > handle the bulk of these in a single vote and only have separate > > votes for ext/ereg and ext/mysql, as these are arguably more > > intrusive. > > +1 on all of that. > > As far as ext/mysql is concerned, I would eagerly vote in favor of removing > it. It performs poorly, is procedural, less secure, doesn't support "is procedural" is however, never a reason to remove something. As most of PHP's function library, is procedural and works just fine. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine