Re: Legacy package support... question

<klaus@capitalfocus.org> wrote : > 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? Hi Klaus, I have committed the patch you sent a while ago that deals with line endings and tabs. About your issue, I think you should fix the key/value thing first, then release HTML_Select as beta. You can release HTML_Page as stable with your diffs, if you think it's ready. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam