Re: Re: [PEPr] -1 for Text::Text_Huffman

Jan Schneider wrote: > > Zitat von "Tomas V.V.Cox" <cox@idecnet.com>: > > > IMHO we should encourage PHP5 only packages. > > Bad idea IMHO, at least at the current point of time. PHP 5 was released > today, but it will be weeks or months until you could call it stable for > production evironments seriously. Sure, but on the other hand it will also take weeks or months until new packages get stable enough to rely on them! PEAR is part of PHP, so if PEAR doesn't embrace PHP v5, who should? PEAR should of cause IMHO actively support PHPv5 by doing active development! This way a lot of buggers would be found and fixed, and in the end PHPv5 would become stable so much earlier then if we do nothing. It's my impression that most people on this list have almost no experience with PHPv5. If those people at least tried using PHPv5, they would surely run into unknown bugs, which they could report. I for one have at least reported a few bugs, and that's probably much more than the majority of the PEAR developers, so please stop complaining about lack of stability, and start participating! > And it will take months, and probably a > *lot* of months until a majority of ISPs will have switched to PHP 5. That's for sure - especially if nobody shows any interest in it! And it will of cause also take forever (like months, and probably a *lot* of months) before any of the PHPv5 only packages become stable enough for production environments seriously. We have so start at some point, and the longer we wait, the longer we will have to wait for the packages to become stable. Why should everybody have to wait forever simply because the majority of ISP's doesn't upgrade af once? At least that should stall development; it should only reduce the number of users. > Until then no enterprise user or other people depending on a production > level environment will be able to use this package. So what? The package wouldn't exist anyway! And until the packages exist, the bugs will properly not be found... > And of course no competing package that only differs by being PHP 4 > compatible would be accepted by PEAR. Why not? Why is PHPv4 compatibility now such a bad thing? Regards, Heino