Re: Auto-detecting PHP4 vs. PHP5 PEAR packages

On 2 Apr 2004 at 22:47, Lukas Smith wrote: > Philippe Jausions (11abacus.com) wrote: > [...] > > see this regulation for why things are done the way they are: > http://pear.php.net/group/docs/20031114-bbr.php > > this enabled parallel installation of running of different versions of a > package. > > we dont plan to separate pear in php4 and php5. > instead we aim to have packages that work in both versions and if this > is not feasible create new major versions which address php5. Imho most packages can be made working with both php4 and php5. However, there might be good reasons for using the new functionality of php5 (e.g. simplicity or speed). This mostly introduces also API- improvements. And I think it's a good idea to clear the API in this step. Maybe we should point out that people who intend to bring up php5- only-releases should still make the former one make work with php4 *and* php5, even if that means a slight decrease in performance for the moment? It's one big step now - but maybe in a year or two everything will have been adjusted and we're done. I don't see another viable solution. Stefan