> I can think of 300 sites that need to be re-coded off the top of my head if this is a hard stop on it.
Do you understand written words? Because you don't seem to grasp the concept of deprecation.
> And I don't have time for that. Nor does anyone else. I understand what they're saying, and I understand the need to migrate over time ( i.e. stop using mysql and move to mysqli today ).
Actually, "stop using mysql and move to PDO/mysqli" has been the recommendation since PHP 5.0 was released.
It happened 7 years ago.
You only have yourself to blame.
Oh, and since you don't care for not-broken APIs, it's not like you'll have to migrate your sites to 5.4 (let alone 5.5), you can just stay on 5.3. There's no mandate here.
Do you understand written words? Because you don't seem to grasp the concept of deprecation.
> And I don't have time for that. Nor does anyone else. I understand what they're saying, and I understand the need to migrate over time ( i.e. stop using mysql and move to mysqli today ).
Actually, "stop using mysql and move to PDO/mysqli" has been the recommendation since PHP 5.0 was released.
It happened 7 years ago.
You only have yourself to blame.
Oh, and since you don't care for not-broken APIs, it's not like you'll have to migrate your sites to 5.4 (let alone 5.5), you can just stay on 5.3. There's no mandate here.