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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:26:38 +0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Deprecate then Remove Mcrypt
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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On Mar 16, 2016 12:22 AM, "Remi Collet" <remi@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Le 15/03/2016 17:11, Scott Arciszewski a =C3=A9crit :
> > Hi PHP team,
> >
> > I've opened the vote on
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mcrypt-viking-funeral which aims to
> > deprecate ext/mcrypt in PHP 7.1 then remove it in 7.1+1 (i.e. make
> > it only installable via PECL).
> >
> > In the interim, I'll be developing a (MIT licensed)
> > decryption-only userland implementation of the mcrypt ciphers so
> > people can migrate their code towards something better.
> >
> > This vote is opened on March 15th, 2016 and will close March 22th
> > at 17:00 UTC.
> >
>
> +1 from me.
>
>
> Probably you miss keeping mcrypt extension means:
>
>         "PHP becomes upstream for libmcrypt"
>
> So, to all people who wote "no",
> please make clear you want to maintain this library.

+1 here but I wonder why it would be different now than with 7.0 except
introducing a BC in a minor release (7.2)?

I would still vote +1 while it should be removed with 8.0.

Cheers
Pierre

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