On 18.09.2018 at 00:51, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > About the RFC - I think we can/should move it to PECL in 7.4 but need no > deprecation messages if we do. If somebody is using it, deprecation > messages would just annoy them, since there's no easy way to switch > except rewrite the code to use completely different extension (which > would probably require significant code rewrite).
Hmm, I have some doubts that it's okay for users if we remove the WDDX extension in PHP 7.4 without any deprecation phase. Is there any precedence of doing so? The deprecation and removal of MCrypt appears to be somwehat comparable, but instead of moving it to PECL with PHP 7.1, we deprecated all functions and moved it to PECL with PHP 7.2. Furthermore, the deprecation notices *are* annoying, and it seems to me that is good, because probably nobody should continue to use these functions. They're unsafe for general data change, and there are likely better alternatives for the safe cases. Don't get me wrong: I like to unbundle the WDDX extension with the least possible effort as soon as possible, but dropping it appears to be simpler as possible. -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
