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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 23:39:55 +0200
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To: Anatol Belski <anatol.php@belski.net>
Cc: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>, PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Removal of dead or not yet PHP7 ported
 SAPIs and extensions
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Anatol Belski <anatol.php@belski.net> wrote:
> On Mon, February 2, 2015 20:30, Andrey Andreev wrote:
>> Oh, forgot one thing ...
>>
>>
>> Mcrypt might be dead, but removing it would be a huge BC break. There
>> was some talk of binding mcrypt_*() functions to ext/openssl - I'd suggest
>> that instead of removal.
>>
> that sounds plausible, but the same one could say about mapping to be
> removed regex to pcre. If anything of that is going to be happening, so I
> would welcome another RFC and implementation.
>

Not quite ... ereg has been deprecated since PHP 5.3, while mcrypt was
never deprecated and is extremely wide-spread in PHP code (that does
encryption) today.

Cheers,
Andrey.