RE: [PEAR-DEV] php5 compatibility

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 at 10:51:58, Lukas Smith wrote: > > From: Stefan Neufeind [mailto:stefan@neufeind.net] > > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:49 AM > > > 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: > > > > > > http://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. > > Well this is already there. You simply have to make the necessary > dependencies. However the information would also be nice to have as a filter > in the browser/search. > > > 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")? > > Dependencies > > > And while we're at it: > > <snip> > > Dependencies I know that "deps" is a good default-answer :-) But in connection with php4/php5-compatibility I have a problem with this. For all packages which currently have a problem with php5 do you want to demand a new release which has deps: php ge 4.0 php lt 5.0 (meaning php with any version 4.x)? Do you want to demand such a "cosmetic"- release for all current packages? Otherwise the installer would have no chance to see which packages have been tested (and been approved working) with php 5.x or not. Stefan