On Thu, 3 Jul 2025, Jakub Zelenka wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM Gina P. Banyard <intern...@gpb.moe> wrote: > > > It is this time of year again where we proposed a list of > > deprecations to add in PHP 8.5: > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_5 > > Here are few notes on the ones that I don't agree with: > > > Deprecate backticks as an alias for shell_exec > > I think this might be too big BC break that might impact many scripts > - would be good to see also if it impacts OSS projects. I guess it > will impact even more non public code bases.
Indeed, I use this *all the time* in quick hacky shell scripts in PHP. Best practise? Definitely not. But it certainly is very useful. > > Deprecate the error_prepend_string and error_append_string INI > > directives > > I think it doesn't have a good enough reason to be deprecated and > might be still used. I don't see any problem with keeping them. +1 cheers, Derick
