Hi! > Why do we need so many functions to get a random int anyways if we now > have random_int()? I would like to see all of them deprecated and > removed in PHP 8.0.
I don't understand this drive to remove functions and break existing code. What is the point of it? If you don't like them, don't use them. They can share underlying implementation but there's absolutely no reason to remove functions unless they do not work anymore, broken and can not be fixed, etc. PHP 8.0 is not some magic land where anything goes and BC does not matter anymore. It still should run existing apps and do it well, otherwise there's no point in releasing it at all - who's going to use it? > Mcrypt is meant to be replaced anyways and OpenSSL might be too if we > can come up with a nicer implementation that actually hides the > underlying library (e.g. sodium). This is another problem. So we have OpenSSL, then we have mcrypt, then we have another implementation like sodium... do we really expect our users to rewrite crypto in their apps every couple of years? That would be insane. OK, we could say "have your apps work as they worked, but use new stuff for new things" - but you propose to remove stuff? -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
