Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors

From:	Rowan Collins	Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:27:12 +0000
Subject:	Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors
References:	1 2 3	Groups:	php.internals
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Alain Williams wrote on 19/11/2014 13:46:

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:41:54PM +0100, Remi Collet wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 19/11/2014 00:11, Levi Morrison a écrit :
[1]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_php4_constructors
This will just kill PEAR and most of available libraries on PEAR forge. Yes they are still some use of them Yes keeping PHP 4 for PEAR is a bad idea
Maybe this would spur PEAR to moving to a modern PHP, they could always maintain a separate PEAR legacy. PHP 4 support ended some 6 years ago.

PEAR is not a single organisation who can mass update all the modules; the guidelines could be updated, if they haven't been already, but there would still be a whole repository full of libraries which used this. Now, whether that's acceptable or not, I don't know, but it does highlight the size of the compatibility break. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]