My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

Should the repo be archived?

I rarely see people use that feature yet tons of repos on Github are essentially dead.

There is nothing as permanent as a temporary fix that works.

Author here, happy to answer any questions. I never imagined a polyfill for http_build_url would gain so much traction. After 12 years, deprecating it feels like the right move, especially given the new options from the community and PHP itself.

For a package with that kind of install base, is there a final release that prints the migration options in a deprecation notice? People will find it years from now through old Stack Overflow answers.

Reading this made me really nostalgic. I cut my teeth in web/software dev in the Laravel 5.x days, and it's quite jarring comparing the day-to-day we have now with back then!

We used to work together at AOL. Glad to see you on here; I hope you're doing great!

Love you kept it alive this long

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