On 11/15/2012 05:52 PM, Sherif Ramadan wrote: > This was the soft-deprecation notice that I believe was discussed > before the actual steps were to be taken to officially deprecate > ext/mysql. Yes, it's a suggestion, but a clearly worded suggestion, > none-the-less. It has been around for a little over 5 months now. I > think that's plenty of time to start alerting people to the fact that > the deprecation is coming.
5 months is nothing in PHP land when it comes to a feature like this. Like Anthony said, this is something that needs to be front and center everywhere. And like David said, it doesn't actually make much sense to deprecate the functions themselves. The extension is going to be moved out of core eventually, but if you still choose to use it by getting it from pecl throwing deprecation warnings from each call makes no sense. We need a frontpage notice. A big notice in the next UPGRADING file. There was nothing about this in the 5.4 UPGRADING file, for example. We also need tutorials showing how to migrate from mysql to mysqli and conference talks on the same showing some of the cooler things like async queries that you get by moving to a more modern API. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
