Re: 5.5 to 5.6 cleanup

From: Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 04:09:03 +0000
Subject: Re: 5.5 to 5.6 cleanup
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On 18 January 2014 07:07, Julien Pauli <[email protected]> wrote:
> In 5.5, we deprecated some things :
> - /e for preg
> - ext/mysql
> - ext/intl stuff
>
> I recall that based on our release process, those items should now get
> removed from 5.6 code for final release.

I don't think that's specified anywhere — we _can_ choose to remove
them in 5.6 if we want to, but that doesn't mean we have to. I
deliberately left that open ended for the ext/mysql deprecation, for
instance.

Personally, I'd be pretty strongly against unbundling ext/mysql in
5.6, as it's still too heavily used. The lag time for new PHP releases
to start getting widespread use is long enough that most users haven't
even seen a deprecation warning yet.

The others: meh. I'm not qualified to judge how used those intl
functions are, and while /e is an abomination, nobody new is going to
get owned if it survives one more release. Neutral on those.

Adam


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