Legacy package support... question

From: Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 23:48:25 +0000
Subject: Legacy package support... question
Groups: php.pear.dev 
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Hey everyone, I've taken over maintenance of HTML_Page and HTML_Select (both deleted in /php4/pear because they were orphaned). Now... I don't want to make anyone who's using these packages mad. So, I'd like to allow them to install the package with the knowledge that this is just a legacy release. So far, I've come up with two options: 1) release the existing code as 1.0 stable (as in the original source) and then release the new version (with BC-break) as 2.0 or 2) release the current as a 0.1 alpha, so that people don't get fooled into installing it. But that's a bit of a problem because the original file that was bundled with PHP claims to be version 1.0 Of course, I could tell the existing users to upgrade their code, but that wouldn't be exactly friendly. And I don't want to have to support the old API in my new release. Any thoughts? Klaus

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