Re: [RFC_v3] Handling Backwards Compatibility in PEAR [hopefully the final draft]

Hi! Lukas Smith wrote:

Well your argument can be taken both ways. So if there is no problem time when it an upgrade is released, why is it that running a simple regexp is such a huge deal?

It would have been a simple regexp *if* PHP had package/module/namespace support on language level. In the current situation it would be a *complex* regexp to change classes, constants, include paths, whatever. Some subtle bugs can be introduced. See my "hack upon a hack" argument. BTW, if Pierre-Alain and myself have common viewpoint on something, that's a clear indication of big problems in the proposal. ;D