Re: Re: [PEPr] Comment on Networking::GeoIP
| From: | Hans Lellelid | Date: | Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:45:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [PEPr] Comment on Networking::GeoIP | ||
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Hi David,
David Costa wrote:
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. Yes, that's right, it'll be awhile before it's stable. Plus I think there's a PEAR suggestion/requirement that any PHP5 class remain in alpha state until PHP5 is stable (or longer). I think that makes sense (well, I would say that a PHP5 package shouldn't be stable until PHP5 is stable; I don't know about "alpha").
Perhaps with an extended offering of PHP 5 only package more people will have a good reason to switch. That's what I'm hoping. :) There's not a lot of insentive if all PEAR classes are PHP4-compatible (read: take advantage of none of the new features in PHP5).Hans