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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 01:19:05 -0700
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To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7
From: kris.craig@gmail.com (Kris Craig)

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On Oct 12, 2014 12:54 AM, "Derick Rethans" <derick@php.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Kris Craig wrote:
>
> > On Oct 11, 2014 1:52 PM, "Nikita Popov" <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> 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.

Fair point.  I agree that alone wouldn't be grounds to remove it.  I was
just citing that as one of many deficiencies compared to more current
extensions like ext/mysqli.

--Kris

>
> Derick
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