On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Leigh, > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Leigh <lei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > It is my intention to create a new PECL package for ext/mcrypt, so > > that it can be removed from master as per the RFC > > (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mcrypt-viking-funeral) > > > > I do not expect there to be any updates to the extension after it has > > been migrated, however we voted to move it there. > > > > Any objections/comments? If not I'll apply for my PECL account in the > > next few days. > > I am not sure to follow. > > We rejected to move it out of the core for 7.0. This RFC is about > deprecation for 7.1. > > As much as I want to kill this beast as soon as possible, I do not > think we can kill it in 7.x but 8.x. It is also why I was pushing so > hard to kill it in 7.0, knowing that this will be tried again and > sadly for 7.x. >From the RFC: > In PHP 7.1+1 (be it 7.2 or 8.0), the crypt extension will be moved out of core and into PECL and > Vote “Yes” to raise an E_DEPRECATED notice in PHP 7.1 when any crypt function is used and to remove the extension from core in 7.1+1. So, per the RFC, moving to PECL in 7.2 is correct. - Davey
