Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:16689 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 54328 invoked by uid 1010); 15 Jun 2005 15:09:32 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 54312 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2005 15:09:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fission.org.uk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jun 2005 15:09:32 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 81.103.221.48 mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com Solaris 8 (1) Received: from ([81.103.221.48:33281] helo=mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 1.2 r(5656M)) with SMTP id 72/A5-20931-BA440B24 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:09:32 -0400 Received: from aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050615150928.VSDD6773.mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:09:28 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.20] (really [81.106.213.130]) by aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050615150928.SXWD26865.aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@[192.168.0.20]>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:09:28 +0100 Message-ID: <42B044A4.2050000@fission.org.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:09:24 +0100 User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050402) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stanislav Malyshev CC: Lukas Smith , internals@lists.php.net References: <42B03CF6.9000000@php.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] forward compatibility "public" in 4.4 From: gareth@fission.org.uk (Gareth Ardron) Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >LS>>Currently PEAR.php requires PHP 4.2. > >This means there are a lot of people using PEAR with PHP 4.3 and 4.2. And >there's almost no people using it with 4.4 - since 4.4 is not >out. So now you want to go out and tell them "upgrade your hosting to our >brand-new PHP version risking breaking existing apps - or lose PEAR. And >it's all because we want a fancy keyword". Not a good message for a >package that should be to PHP something like libc is to C, I think. > > I didn't read it as being suggested that the php dependancy for pear was bumped up to 4.4 as soon as 4.4 was released - indeed, that would be a mind-numbingly stupid idea. But as bug fixes are still coming out for the 4.x branch, why not bump up the required pear number to 4.4 in say, 6 months time or something - thereby giving users the time and enough warning to upgrade.