On 18/06/2021 22:16, Derick Rethans wrote:
strftime is infected by thread unsafe locales, which is plenty of reason to
deprecate it, with additional pro reasons for doing so being its disparate
functionality among different os-es and libc's.
Deprecation also doesn't mean removal, which won't happen until PHP 9, giving
developers plenty of time to move to a saner threadsafe locale API based on
intl/icu.
I think you're probably right, but I think in general deprecations
should be accompanied by much stronger migration instructions than
"there's a class over here that probably does what you want if you kick
it a bit".
Like everything in ext/intl, IntlDateFormatter is rather complex, and
the manual relies heavily on links to the ICU documentation, some of
which are 404s. If you're saying my 276 uses of strftime() are "wrong",
it would be nice to have a clear message of what is "right", and what I
should do to "fix" them.
If the alternative is definitely there, and the deprecation is
accompanied by an effort to document it clearly, then my objection goes
away.
Regards,
--
Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]
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