Remove deprecated functions for 5.0.0 release

[lucaswerkmeister]

These were already deprecated in 4.0.0, so let’s completely remove them with the next major version.

[lucaswerkmeister]

They don’t seem to have had any tests, so there’s nothing to remove there as far as I can see.

[JeroenDeDauw]

IIRC this library was written as part of AskSerialization (abandoned/never used) and then got extracted. Leaving a bunch of stuff uncovered by direct tests.

You might want to hold off on actually releasing a new major version. It will create a bunch of work which might not be justified.

Direct dependents that will need updating: https://packagist.org/packages/serialization/serialization/dependents?order_by=downloads. Indirect ones include all dependents of Datavalues Seralization. Note some false positives in the list there, such as SMW, which no longer uses this library.

[JeroenDeDauw]

Btw if you are writing new code that does "serialization", using a more local interface probably makes sense if you are not somehow forced into using this one.

[wiese]

Btw if you are writing new code that does "serialization", using a more local interface probably makes sense if you are not somehow forced into using this one.

Thanks for making this explicit!