Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors
| From: | Alain Williams | Date: | Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:33:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:27:12PM +0000, Rowan Collins wrote:
> 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.
How many servers are stuck on PHP 4 ?
Of those 'stuck' servers, how many have applications still under active
development ?
The point is: how many people would get annoyed if PEAR stopped supporting PHP 4 ?
IMHO: making PHP 5.3+ the PEAR baseline would not seem unreasonable.
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