Consider migrating from zendframework to laminas

[hostep]

Using composer on a Magento project recently started giving the following warnings:

Package zendframework/zend-barcode is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-barcode instead.
Package zendframework/zend-captcha is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-captcha instead.
Package zendframework/zend-code is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-code instead.
Package zendframework/zend-config is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-config instead.
Package zendframework/zend-console is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-console instead.
Package zendframework/zend-db is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-db instead.
Package zendframework/zend-di is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-di instead.
Package zendframework/zend-diactoros is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-diactoros instead.
Package zendframework/zend-escaper is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-escaper instead.
Package zendframework/zend-eventmanager is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-eventmanager instead.
Package zendframework/zend-feed is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-feed instead.
Package zendframework/zend-filter is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-filter instead.
Package zendframework/zend-form is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-form instead.
Package zendframework/zend-http is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-http instead.
Package zendframework/zend-hydrator is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-hydrator instead.
Package zendframework/zend-i18n is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-i18n instead.
Package zendframework/zend-inputfilter is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-inputfilter instead.
Package zendframework/zend-json is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-json instead.
Package zendframework/zend-loader is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-loader instead.
Package zendframework/zend-log is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-log instead.
Package zendframework/zend-mail is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-mail instead.
Package zendframework/zend-math is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-math instead.
Package zendframework/zend-mime is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-mime instead.
Package zendframework/zend-modulemanager is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-modulemanager instead.
Package zendframework/zend-mvc is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-mvc instead.
Package zendframework/zend-psr7bridge is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-psr7bridge instead.
Package zendframework/zend-serializer is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-serializer instead.
Package zendframework/zend-server is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-server instead.
Package zendframework/zend-servicemanager is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-servicemanager instead.
Package zendframework/zend-session is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-session instead.
Package zendframework/zend-soap is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-soap instead.
Package zendframework/zend-stdlib is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-stdlib instead.
Package zendframework/zend-uri is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-uri instead.
Package zendframework/zend-validator is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-validator instead.
Package zendframework/zend-view is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-view instead.

Zendframwork now has a new name: Laminas, more info over here: https://framework.zend.com/blog/2019-04-17-announcing-laminas.html

Laminas has some documentation and tools for migrating, Magento should probably take a good look at this and see how easy we can migrate: https://getlaminas.org/blog/2019-12-31-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new.html

Will probably be fun to stay backwards compatible, because of namespace changes, maybe the 2.4 milestone can be used for this since it hasn't been released yet?

[hostep]

If the exact same versions would be used as we already use, it should probably be fine to only update the composer dependency names, because the namespace changes only happened in new versions, for example: laminas/laminas-http@2.11.1...2.11.2

But those dependency versions would then have to be restricted in the short term, so we don't get any new versions with a new namespace in code.

So something like this could work I think (untested):

Instead of:
"zendframework/zend-http": "^2.6.0",

Use:
"laminas/laminas-http": "^2.6.0 < 2.11.2",

[ihor-sviziev]

Hi,
This issue was already fixed by magento/magento2@892dee4

[hostep]

Very good, let's close this one then!