Re: Text_Huffman and PHP 5

Markus Nix wrote:

Currently most of the stuff I am working on is PHP 5, so I made a clear decision. Personally I don't understand why one should refuse a PHP 5 only package. Well, this is the future, every maintainer has to switch sooner or later. I think it is a well-comunicated mistake that PEAR is simple and for everyone, in fact it is not. So what is this backwards stuff all around? In a couple of month everything in this package will be done with PHP 5 on a level accepted by the PEAR community, so then we have a PHP 4 version and a PHP 5 version what makes everything more complicated for the user than having only one choice, clean and neat.

Of course, I think you should keep it PHP5. I also do all my development in PHP5 now. I don't see any reason why new packages should be forced to be PHP4-compatible. The "couple months" away from stability in PHP5 is no argument, because those packages won't be stable until then anyway (as has been mentioned repeatedly). There's no precedent for refusing a PEAR pacakges because it is PHP5-only. Net_GeoIP, e.g., is PHP5 only for not better reason & was voted in w/ no conditions. There's only an ever-growing need for PHP5-only packages. And Exception support is a darn good reason to make it PHP5 only. Hans