Re: Re: phar and e_strict

On 10/1/05, Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net> wrote: > Hello Christian, > > Saturday, October 1, 2005, 6:13:51 PM, you wrote: > > > Helgi Þormar wrote: > >> So in a way I agree with Jani, specially since many distros are already > >> moving to 5.x > > > Maybe you should look at the installed bases of PHP instead of the PHP > > version distributed with the latest distros. Anyone got current stats on > > that? > > > And no, I don't believe in forcing people to upgrade for something as > > basic as PEAR. Creating a PHP5 branch and freezing PEAR for PHP4 once > > PHP5 crosses a certain threshold (75%? 90%?) might be an option though. > > Noone ever said that pear for php 4 should be frozen in the near future. > The only point is that we either need a branch or a tool that allows > automatic conversion of pear code to php 5 code. > You could do this with a post-install script quite easily. I don't think this is the point, however. Making code E_STRICT isn't really important. The thing that Greg wants to do is drop PHP4 support completely. This would make the code less complicated and make support easier. -- Justin Patrin