Re: Re: [PEPr] Comment on Networking::GeoIP

David Costa wrote:

I am really in agreement with Hans, not necessarily about exceptions but for sure about the PHP5 only offering. I proposed a PHP 5 package too and a second might follow soon. We will specify on the package.xml that PHP 5 is required there is really nothing "forcing" the user to switch to PHP 5. The great majority of professional developers will switch or already switched to PHP 5. To me offering a PHP 4 package now would be useless. PHP 5.0.0-dev is out and the first release will follow soon. If I user doesn't want to move to PHP 5 till it is officially stable that would be still fine because I believe Hans package will take few months to reach a stable release.

The movement to PHP 5 is the definitive thing to make the PEAR proyect a success. Mostly because of two reason in my pov: 1) Developers who moves to PHP5 are in general terms, people who knows how PHP works and how to code strictly, we want them here. 2) Nowadays we're living a versions fight in Linux distributions, which will mean that the second day PHP5 final would be announced, distros will start shipping it by default. Tomas V.V.Cox