[PEPr] Comment on Encryption::Crypt_GPG

Nikolas Coukouma (http://pear.php.net/user/atrus) has commented on the proposal for Encryption::Crypt_GPG. Comment: Re: "The package still requires PHP5. We don't have a need to make the package use PHP4 and we would not test or use it with PHP4." This alone doesn't seem like a good reason to me. Refraining from using PHP 5 features isn't terribly difficult. You should write unit tests anyway, so all you need to do is run them under PHP 4 to make sure everything works there and you didn't accidentally use something from PHP 5. Releasing a beta version and getting PHP 4 users to test it should be good enough for QA before releasing it as stable. The better and more debatable justification is "PHP 5 is maturing, and we expect that most new scripts will use it be the time we make a stable PEAR release." Still, that doesn't consider the people with existing PHP 4 scripts and would like to use encryption. I hope that this is a pretty common occurance because signing and encryption are features I like to see. For example, forums, blogging software, etc. could have some Javascript encrypt a form field with a public key and decrypt it with a private one. Or perhaps they could let users upload a public key and sign their posts with a private one. Proposal information: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=229 -- Sent by PEPr, the automatic proposal system at http://pear.php.net