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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 12:36:32 -0800
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To: Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:
> On 5 March 2015 at 12:21, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It would be good to do a pecl release for each of them, and mark the
>> package as deprecated/overseeded by mysqli (I let you choose). Doing
>> so will trigger a build there, cleaner.
>
> I'm on the fence about making a release for ereg and mysql: it would
> help in terms of code availability, but at the same time I feel like
> it undermines our message of "no, really, don't use these at all in
> PHP 7", even though they'd be marked as unmaintained and deprecated.
>
> I guess I'm open to persuasion either way here.

Same here. First time we moved ext to pecl I was saying that we should
not provide any release and not even use pecl for that. We disagreed,
so I think we should be consistent here and move on. While I do think
that a lot of bad things may happen with people starting to install
ext/mysql from pecl =)
-- 
Pierre

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