Re: php5 compatibility

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 at 10:38:53, Lukas Smith wrote: > I would like to ask every maintainer to test their package with php5. > This is important for 2 reasons: > > 1) our user base will start using php5 > 2) we can help find compatibility issues in php5 before they bite our asses > > One of the more annoying BC breaks was apparently fixed: > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=24687 > > See this mail for reference: > 0ÔïW7¬³ÿ > ʺhttp://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=107384634108877&w=2 For sure it would be great to test every package with php5. However, is there something in the works so packages can be marked: - php4-only - php4/php5 (both) - php5-only ? This has been mentioned before on the list. But I wonder if the core-team / website-team has yet agreed on a common way to do this. Also, will the installer take care of this (e.g. test "I'm running on php5 - so I won't install php4-only-packages without forcing")? And while we're at it: How about the possiblity of branches, that has been discussed before? E.g. if MDB2 might be marked php5-only (this is only an assumption - don't know about it in detail) then MDB1 would need to be able to be e.g. tagged php4-only. If you intend to put these compatibility-tags into the package.xml: Since some packages might not have a new release for a considerable amount of time, it would be best to default to php4-only-compatiblity in my eyes for all packages that haven't been marked different. Regards, Stefan