Re: [PHP-DEV] Write down a deprecation policy

2016-08-25 Thread Rowan Collins
On 25/08/2016 12:10, Lester Caine wrote: Is there any well documented alternative way of achieving the same results as provided by these functions? Much of the time there is on-list debates on how something should be done, but it gets somewhat watered down in a migration guide ... if it makes it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Write down a deprecation policy

2016-08-25 Thread Lester Caine
On 25/08/16 08:00, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > P.S. utf8_decode/encode are "Shouldn't use functions" as they make > code non I18N needlessly. According to the code, original author's > intention was to implement various encoding support. I guess this > wouldn't happen anymore. Is there any well document

Re: [PHP-DEV] Write down a deprecation policy

2016-08-25 Thread Yasuo Ohgaki
Hi Rodrigue, On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Rodrigue Villetard wrote: > First post here, so please be gentle and pedagogic with me if I am > misbehaviouring… > > I am here for a pre-RFC feedback. It’s not coding related, but more about > convention. > > I’m a follower of the french mailing lis

Re: [PHP-DEV] Write down a deprecation policy

2016-08-24 Thread David Walker
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:46 PM Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > * Explicit remaining time to live of a deprecated feature (ie. in > > which future version of php this deprecated functionality will be > > dropped) > > I don't think we should be in a rush to drop deprecated things. Java, >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Write down a deprecation policy

2016-08-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > * Explicit remaining time to live of a deprecated feature (ie. in > which future version of php this deprecated functionality will be > dropped) I don't think we should be in a rush to drop deprecated things. Java, for example, deprecates a lot of things but drops them very rarely. And I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Write down a deprecation policy

2016-08-20 Thread Christoph M. Becker
On 20.08.2016 at 10:31, Rodrigue Villetard wrote: > What we would like, is more: > * Explicit remaining time to live of a deprecated feature (ie. in > which future version of php this deprecated functionality will be > dropped) > * More ergonomics and normalized deprecations messages +1 --

Re: [PHP-DEV] Write down a deprecation policy

2016-08-20 Thread Rodrigue Villetard
On 20 August 2016 at 07:56, Pierre Joye wrote: > > Hi, > > On Aug 19, 2016 8:45 PM, "Rodrigue Villetard" > wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > First post here, so please be gentle and pedagogic with me if I am > > misbehaviouring… > > > > I am here for a pre-RFC feedback. It’s not coding rela

Re: [PHP-DEV] Write down a deprecation policy

2016-08-19 Thread Pierre Joye
Hi, On Aug 19, 2016 8:45 PM, "Rodrigue Villetard" wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > First post here, so please be gentle and pedagogic with me if I am > misbehaviouring… > > I am here for a pre-RFC feedback. It’s not coding related, but more about > convention. > > I’m a follower of the french maili

[PHP-DEV] Write down a deprecation policy

2016-08-19 Thread Rodrigue Villetard
Hello everyone, First post here, so please be gentle and pedagogic with me if I am misbehaviouring… I am here for a pre-RFC feedback. It’s not coding related, but more about convention. I’m a follower of the french mailing list about php internals where we discuss, chiefly thanks to Pascal Marti