On 16/08/2016 18:15, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
Unless a new active maintainer steps forward, we should consider to move ext/xml to PECL, in which case the deprecation of utf8_(en|de)code might be unnecessary.
I don't think that really follows at all. Until this week, I had no idea that utf8_(en|de)code had anything at all to do with ext/xml, and I can pretty much guarantee that the majority of people using them also have no idea.
Whether or not we happen to be removing all the functions in an extension, before we can move anything to PECL, we still need to consider who is using it, and what the appropriate deprecation time frame is.
To be honest, I don't think *any* of the functions in that extension can be removed without a decent period of deprecation, because however horrible and unmaintained they are, they are extremely widely used.
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