Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] HTML_Select-1.2 (beta) Released.

Hi! web4p4@mail.guenteleurope.com wrote:

Hi Alexey, From my point of view, this is the same as the discussion on GetOpt. If you remove the package, you at _least_ need to provide a Siberia copy of "an older and not-so-compatible version of code" which many applications still depend on. Yes, I think there needs to be a 2.0 which addresses all the problems you mentioned. However, we do need to allow people to install all versions of every package that ever existed in PEAR so that they continue to use it.

OK, I see the point in reviving HTML_Select. :] I don't see the point in reviving the code that wasn't maintained for quite some time, although. Reason: the same code is now in PEAR, it was maintained all the time and it has a ton of bugs fixed since then. Proposal: why not make HTML_Select a wrapper around HTML_QuickForm_select class, adding some BC switches (IIRC, the only BC break was loadArray() behaviour). Thus we'll have a HTML_Select package for those who need it without duplicating the code and/or having to fix the same bugs once again.

How many people do you think will upgrade to 2.0 and change their code? (if, indeed, 2.0 is released) Quite a few... At any rate, we won't have people upgrading PHP and griping about packages no longer being available.

OK, I agree here.