Den 2021-11-15 kl. 10:52, skrev Derick Rethans:
Dear Internals,
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, Nikita Popov wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 12:02 PM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
This RFC takes the more direct route of deprecating this
functionality entirely. I expect that this will have relatively
little impact on modern code (e.g. in Symfony I could fix the vast
majority of deprecation warnings with a three-line diff), but may
have a big impact on legacy code that doesn't declare properties at
all.
I plan to open voting on this RFC soon. Most of the feedback was
positive, apart from the initial choice of opt-int mechanism, and that
part should be addressed by the switch to the
#[AllowDynamicProperties] attribute.
The voting is now open, but I think one thing was not taken into account
here, the many small changes that push work to maintainers of Open
Source library and CI related tools.
In the last few years, the release cadence of PHP has increased, which
is great for new features. It however has not been helpful to introduce
many small deprecations and BC breaks in every single release.
This invariably is making maintainers of Open Source anxious, and
frustrated as so much work is need to keep things up to date. I know
they are *deprecations*, and applications can turn these off, but that's
not the case for maintainers of libraries.
Before we introduce many more of this into PHP 8.2, I think it would be
wise to figure out a way how to:
- improve the langauge with new features
- keep maintenance cost for open source library and CI tools much lower
- come up with a set of guidelines for when it is necessary to introduce
BC breaks and deprecations.
I am all for improving the language and making it more feature rich, but
we have not spend enough time considering the impacts to the full
ecosystem.
I have therefore voted "no" on this RFC, and I hope you will too.
cheers,
Derick
Hi,
Maybe the RM's should have a mandate to keep track on deprecations for
a specific release and be able to say: "Sorry the shop are closed for
further deprecations in this release".
What do you think?
One could count the deprecations in the 8.x track and have a straw poll
on it and/or ask what key deprecations do we see further for the 8.x?
Is even the "Dynamic properties" one, one of the last ones?
r//Björn L
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