Re: __gtype and constants

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Steph wrote: > Andrei, rewriting from scratch only involves breakage in this particular > area if you want that to happen. > > It's a difficult one, because it will kill a lot of old scripts dead - but > then again, it will make the new version prettier and easier to use. > > I think we're all fairly together on the idea that PHP-GTK 2 is likely to be > more popular than PHP-GTK 1 ever was, for many reasons. The question is > about the amount of loyalty you need to have to the existing user base, and > about their interests - will they be ok to call this a whole new language > and learn the new ways, or are they all desperate for an easy upgrade? > > I still think this question should go to the vote on php-gtk-general. I disagree about the vote in this case. We are likely to get lots of conflicting opinions which will not help matters, but will just delay the development. In my personal, somewhat strong, opinion the combination of Gtk2 + PHP5 fully justifies any sort of BC breakage that we may need. After all, PHP-GTK 1 was written without any sort of action, plan, rhyme or reason. I just invented things as I went along, and I would be loathe to have to preserve something stupid if we can make it much better. As Frank said, people are free to use PHP-GTK 1 + PHP 4 if they feel so. Of course there will be work in rewriting the apps if people want to switch to PHP-GTK 2, but most likely they would be rewriting them anyway, to take advantage of PHP 5's object-oriented features. - Andrei