RE: [PEAR-DEV] Mail_IMAP 2.0.0 alpha 1

Hi, > David Costa wrote: > If we are defining the rules then we cannot build upon the assumption > that the users > are too lazy to learn how to catch an Exception and therefore we have > to use something else when there is an > in-build mechanism to do this in PHP 5... At php-tools.net, I get a lot of mails from users, that have problems using a simple OO-API, it will take some time, till these users learned that you need to catch an exception and not try an if(). > no because PHP 5 only PEAR packages must work under E_STRICT so you > can't include PHP 4 stuff regardless if the end user is running under > E_STRICT or not. So for the time being the only alternative is > PEAR_Exception. I couldn't use ErrorStack or PEAR so I didn't even > spend too much time in the transition ;) A PEAR package cannot, but any application may use PHP4 and PHP5 packages in PHP5, while disabling E_STRICT... Stephan