Re: future of PEAR (was [PEAR-DEV] [Call For Votes]PHP::Fork)

On 10 Nov 2003 at 22:13, Klaus Guenther wrote: > Tobias Schlitt wrote: > > What actually prevents us from creating a new pear to even better > > handle upgrade to PHP5 and repair some definite technical issues, > > etc.? > > Actually, I think this may not be a bad idea... pear 2.0 packages > would need to be optimized for php5. > > There should be a system for pear with multiple packages. Of course, > most php4 code will still work with php5, but php5 code won't work > with php4. Right now we have a situation like PHPUnit, which has a > stable release that cannot be installed on php4, but the user must > determine the latest version that worked with php4. I don't think this > is the way it should work. > > As for community, that's something that has to be fixed apart from any > new framework. Being able to have multiple major versions beside each other and having the ability to check for PHP 4 / PHP 5 by using dependencies in package.xml solves every "problem" you mentioned in your post afaik. So where's the "big deal" this includes? Okay, we would need to start over the "multiple major versions"-discussion again ... which I think is damn necessary anyway! Stefan