Re: oldest supported PHP version?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lukas Smith" <smith@backendmedia.com> To: "'Roman Neuhauser'" <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>; "'pear-dev'" <pear-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 11:07 PM Subject: RE: [PEAR-DEV] oldest supported PHP version? > > From: Roman Neuhauser [mailto:neuhauser@bellavista.cz] > > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 11:01 PM > > > > What is the oldest version of PHP is PEAR (I'm esp. interested in > > PEAR::DB) required to run with? > > > > I've looked in the PEAR manual, but didn't spot anything relevant. > > You should be able to find this information in the package.xml file of > each package. This file is in the package root in CVS. > > It should also be listed on the package homepage. However there were > some errors in the past, which might result in this listing to be > incomplete? (dunno if this was fixed actually) > > However this information seems to be missing in both PEAR and DB :-/ > > I think php 4.0.4pl1 would be a good assumption iirc. > From go-pear: // Check if PHP version is sufficient if (!function_exists("version_compare")) { die("Sorry! Your PHP version is too old. PEAR and this script requires at least PHP 4.1.0 for stable operation. so I would say that this release is the minimal one that has to be supported. Anyway, new or missing features could be emulated with if (!function_exists()), version_compare(), etc. Tomas V.V.Cox