Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors

Hi, On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote: > 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. Nope. The point is, how much of that code *depends on PHP4-style constructors*, which work perfectly fine in PHP 5.x. Regardless, it's time to put it in the past, so a +1 from me for this RFC. Cheers, Andrey.