On Oct 13, 2014 7:10 PM, "Jan Ehrhardt" <php...@ehrhardt.nl> wrote: > > Dmitry Stogov in php.internals (Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:29:06 +0400): > >Note, that once we move extension outside of main source tree, only > >extension maintainers (if any) will support them. > > In the ext/mysql case this will be a bit uncomfortable. If you compile > PHP --with-mysql=mysqlnd the mysqlnd-part is in core, while a part of > the functionality of ext/mysql is used. What if mysqlnd drifts away from > supporting ext/mysql?
It is more the other way 'round. Mysql being not updated to support latest core change. Which may happen, and I would have no issue with that if we choose to remove it. Keeping in mind that we talk about 7 here. So users still have something like at least 3 years in front of them, 4 if we do a 5.7.
