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. And it will take months, and probably a *lot* of months until a majority of ISPs will have switched to PHP 5. Until then no enterprise user or other people depending on a production level environment will be able to use this package.

See my point Jan. LAMP is a very succesful platform for web development, yes? That involves Linux and it involves distributions war. Part of that war is to pack the very latest version of key packages, this includes PHP. I bet you, in less than one month, one major Linux distrib will ship PHP5 and a lot of developers will just start using it. ISPs takes a little long to upgrade, but not so much, for not saying the amount of people who doesn't depend on them. Other valuable point I see for switching now to PHP5, is the fact that maybe more serious developers start looking at PEAR, or the fact that PEAR was always a big testsuite for latest PHP technologies. Any way, IMHO, we can/should vote against a package if is missing something, doesn't conform CS, etc. but in any case if it's just written for PHP5, sounds really crazy (again imho). Tomas V.V.Cox