Re: AW: [PEAR-DEV] BC breakage results

Zitat von Alexey Borzov <borz_off@cs.msu.su>: > Hi! > > Daniel Khan wrote: > >>Now, we have a dilemma: either remove them in 3.2 (which was > >>intended initially), make the version 4.0 instead of 3.2 > >>(which will be misleading for users after 3.0) or create an > >>abomination of QuickForm4. > >>Removing them will shave 10kb from the main include file, > >>which is Good. > > > > > > So wouldn't here a slot based solution a party solution? > > So you at least don't have to release a 4.0 but a 3.2..? > > I think that slot-based solution is better than mandatory installation > of different versions into different directories. Thus we let users > decide what to do with the packages. > One can install the package into slot 1, test it, then upgrade the > package in the main slot. Or one can install older version of the > package to the slot 1 and install the package that depends on it. > More power to the users. Yeah, cool, especially for those users (and there are lots of them) who don't even understand the meaning of include_path. Remember: while developers are *using* PEAR packages, end users have to *install* them. And you can't compare these users with geeks running Gentoo. Jan. -- http://www.horde.org - The Horde Project http://www.ammma.de - discover your knowledge http://www.tip4all.de - Deine private Tippgemeinschaft