Deal with abandonment of laminas-text

[demiankatz]

This package depends on laminas-text, which has been abandoned. (It's used for Figlets at very least). Should we deprecate the Figlet CAPTCHA? Should we move the Figlet generator out of laminas-text and into this package? Is there a different solution worth considering?

[froschdesign]

Should we deprecate the Figlet CAPTCHA?

This path should be taken. Or does someone use this variant as a captcha?

[demiankatz]

@froschdesign, it's a configurable option in my project, but I'm not sure that it's ever used. I don't think taking it away would be a disaster for us. We'll discuss on our community call today.

Assuming all agree that deprecation is the best path forward, please let me know if you need my help. I'm not familiar with the deprecation process in this project, but if you can point me to a standards document or give me a rough idea of what needs to happen, I don't mind taking a few minutes to get a PR started.

[marclaporte]

We'll discuss on our community call today.

What were the conclusions of the meeting?

[demiankatz]

We'll discuss on our community call today.

What were the conclusions of the meeting?

In the VuFind® community, we've deprecated our code that relies on the Figlet CAPTCHA, so removing it from laminas-captcha will not be a problem for us.

[marclaporte]

Is this something that will be in 2.19.0 or it provokes a 3.0.0? (Because it's technically a BC break)

[demiankatz]

It seems to me like a 3.0.0 would make the most sense; as you say, it's a BC break, so semantic versioning seems to demand the major bump. Of course, I'm just a visitor here, so that's an opinion without a lot of weight behind it. ;-)

[marclaporte]

Ok, I suggested here #51