Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:95437 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 8859 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2016 21:46:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Aug 2016 21:46:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=smalyshev@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=smalyshev@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.192.180 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: smalyshev@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.192.180 mail-pf0-f180.google.com Received: from [209.85.192.180] ([209.85.192.180:34272] helo=mail-pf0-f180.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7F/4C-10212-7951EB75 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:45:59 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-f180.google.com with SMTP id p64so10657526pfb.1 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:45:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5+Z1VHUnkttGqAfeWzxRkxi23jLZT4563Fn2aPbvSWI=; b=uk2LXFVuH0aKi+fDFhxkONSJUPW5NEglcD0y9pwN1XGvyeeIrh4oq2mrbD+oWv60dD weJ8Z+IsOk5jN0vmU5R7B1Lk6Nrwmieu+7U/C9BRD2/m6/WuHNQgrQ0QD+PMEqtwGtXG 6v0t/KY2al3koYmAtty+hai5UfpgMW6pxuv4rXESiSaX5bHx0ISVQVvaSRwzX0oFs21R oPr8vI9wa5SsIheOY9n+7f0CHtW1WPXhSI6X9wR5ki6dWrxhzfcMjSWvfoKcenCk9u5I f+oH1yyZ0EjXHqf3qzgZc7gwqs+GmKRWx4PbIOMlQhOguwx2N8ck6CMLmlWLalPAKDzs 3tiQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5+Z1VHUnkttGqAfeWzxRkxi23jLZT4563Fn2aPbvSWI=; b=RnxkIZbELt1/zbwpZ7vTNkyX153XISiXelcSkZ5yP53jONzP6zvYKpSzwrZk3SldHT UgmP4D8ozl/CgRwgbAVFh4MMaXUc5yjcEvNH73xrTsFkyCp1u9svFSFHnre1tuk/E7rh /czqjQ2bzbcpaYkW/eFlwNbbzyC8L6659z5eSnzelzYxXA4ukeqvcvOW3iDbzXf1/nr8 arVHX+qx0d4XTXOSSrqWhKbUMrW9vbobJDrgib2Fwu0Hp1GnqpZAeXqAWisg/CZsZC9d J0nnQqevkd2HCppn1i/oTgHdAF+/gS9YVvw5aTcLNYa9d8qAdbfMnkYOV3dsoxCHh724 bcvQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwPwPe3GRLOJMAx374/bQHsSF7/08wo3jl4SSzAjIxKSBj+xt36CEI0uvD98QnOKQw== X-Received: by 10.98.133.10 with SMTP id u10mr9738688pfd.134.1472075156617; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Stas-Air.local (108-233-206-104.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net. [108.233.206.104]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u7sm15908663paz.45.2016.08.24.14.45.55 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:45:55 -0700 (PDT) To: Rodrigue Villetard , Pierre Joye References: Cc: PHP internals Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:45:50 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Write down a deprecation policy From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev) Hi! > * Explicit remaining time to live of a deprecated feature (ie. in > which future version of php this deprecated functionality will be > dropped) I don't think we should be in a rush to drop deprecated things. Java, for example, deprecates a lot of things but drops them very rarely. And I think it's one of the things they got right - deprecation tells you we don't recommend using it, but if you still need it for some reason we didn't think of - we won't block you. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com