Re: Re: 5.3 Backwards Compatibility

2008/9/10 Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>: > Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> So let me get this straight, you are complaining that all the new features >> and changes in the 5.3.0 alpha releases are not perfectly documented yet? > > PLEASE re-read the original post. > If my comments and QUESTIONS are taken as complaints then OK. That is not > what was intended. > searching on 'namespace' was not giving me anything - I did not think to try > 'namespaces' - goto has not got any notes yet? - I've not even looked at > phar as it's not on the list I gave the link for so I assume it's still an > optional PECL package ... > > The 'complaint' that I have is that the changes being introduced DO seem to > be bringing in problems which when corrected for 5.3 then cause other > problems for previous versions of PHP. As an example, the bitweaver > framework currently runs out of the box on PHP4 and PHP5. RUNNING it on > PHP5.3 gives various warnings and errors that handling for 5.3 then messes > up previous versions although WHEN migration is documented there may be > options provided that solve those problems? > ( And PEAR comes into this equation since potentially we may have to take > care of pre and post 5.3 situations? ) > Hanging fixes through the code with 'version selects' has not been necessary > much up to now but 5.3 seems to be heading that way? We are currently > working through the bitweaver 2.1 testing, on 5.2.6 and below so have not > yet had time to do any more than checking the code runs on 5.3. The list of > things to be looked at on 5.3 was growing so has had to be shelved until the > next bitweaver release is out. One has to allocate time productively and BW > is currently paying the mortgage for me! > Lester, if you have more complaints or suggestions regarding PEAR, I would like to ask you to go on pear-dev. We'll be happy to help you resolve the situations or work something out. Many developers there are running 5.3 as testers and we have had all the problems. Thank you very much, -- Slan, David