Re: forward compatibility "public" in 4.4

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.