[TYPO3-dev] Removing symlinks in V 4.0

[Michael Scharkow]

Michael Stucki wrote:

> Just compare this with the DB API which is present for more than a year
> already. If we could somehow disable the direct execution of the mysql_*
> functions, people would finally start to change their extensions.

Stucki,

you know as well as I do that not stepping on the extension developers' 
feet in this issue is apparently not a technical problem but a political 
decision. And I seriously doubt we will get rid of mysql_* in the 
foreseeable future.

I'm all for removing symlinks, and if some extensions under some 
circumstances break, who cares. There's plenty of extensions like that 
already, the ones not working with DBAL, not working on Windows, not 
working with PHP4, etc.

Greetings,
Michael