Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:77893 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 4725 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2014 07:56:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Oct 2014 07:56:42 -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] ([82.113.146.227:50459] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 0B/B0-01239-9343A345 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 03:56:41 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F320010C054; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:56:38 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:56:38 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Nikita Popov cc: PHP internals 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, Nikita Popov wrote: > Hi internals! > > 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. I think there should be a little bit more voting "options" - or rather categories. For example, things like this: # style comments in ini files (since PHP 5.3) I don't think we should remove at all (or why is this even deprecated?! cheers, 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