Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
What is true is that most people no longer build PHP at all. They just
end up with whatever their provider has installed or with whatever
packages they end up installing when they install the PHP app they want
to use. Both Wordpress and Drupal depends on php-mysql on Ubuntu, for
example.
It would be good if we could get the majority of the major PHP apps to
commit to supporting mysqli along the same timeframe as marking this
deprecated.
And there is no difference here to getting PHP5.3/4 accepted as the current
version of PHP? People have working systems and if the number of problems
changing are too great then they don't change. Rewriting perfectly functional
mysql code to use mysqli is not a trivial move, just as are the problems of
re-writing PHP5.2 code to work cleanly on 5.4. ISP's are stuck between keeping
customers - who are most likely not even very computer literate - working while
fighting the problems that changes such as removing mysql will cause them.
YES people can simply switch off the checks, but again that misses the whole
problem! Having switched off the checks - you have no idea what is about to blow
up. I know people are getting fed up with my banging on about it - I don't have
any answers - but by removing facilities that perhaps 50% of users rely on CAN
only be done if there is some concerted effort to help those users who have no
means of making the changes themselves? Simply saying 'We told you we were doing
it' is just a kick in the teeth when you have also said 'just hide the errors
and your old code will still work' - isn't it?
This is not about stopping progress, it's about much better education on how
that progress should be used ...
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