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On 06/04/2016 09:50 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: |
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> On 04/06/16 20:45, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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>> would a REQUIRED_USE in newer versions make sense to force the new use |
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>> flag for people upgrading as a deprecation period? |
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> What's the migration path/timeline look like .. I'da thought it would be |
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> months/years to move everything that's centred on php5 up to php7 if |
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> that's the way things are going. What happened to php6 ?!? |
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> Personally I'da thought an ewarning would be sufficient based on the old |
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> flag, and perhaps a news item if considered important enough?! |
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as long as it is sufficient time and it notifies ahead of time, and the |
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new use flag can be added to package.use immediately, indeed, although I |
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believe an elog is more appropriate than ewarn in that case. |
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