On 19.09.2018 at 00:24, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >> Hmm, I have some doubts that it's okay for users if we remove the WDDX >> extension in PHP 7.4 without any deprecation phase. Is there any > > I think deprecation phase is necessary for features that are being > removed. For extension being moved to PECL I do not see any point in > annoying the users for a year with error messages. If they need it, > they'll keep using it anyway, if they do not, they'll drop it - but > deprecation messages here do not add much value that one single > announcement can't make.
Okay, I get your point. The accepted “Cleaning up unmaintained extensions” RFC[1] suggests to move to PECL without any deprecation, so it seems to me we should follow that RFC (i.e. start with a call for maintainership). [1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/umaintained_extensions> -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
