Re: Re: move PEAR to PHP 5-only?

Helgi Þormar wrote: > On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:57:22 -0700, Greg Beaver wrote: > > >>Hi all, >> >>How do PEAR developers feel about moving PEAR 1.5 to PHP5-only? >> >>PEAR 1.4.2 will be out shortly, with all pecl issues fixed, which works >>in PHP 4.x just fine. >> >>It would give me no end of pleasure to stop actively developing in PHP 4. > > > Go for it, tho I always was under the impression that PHP 5 only PEAR > would be PEAR2, as in we couldn't keep it in 1.x, has that changed or does > PEAR (the installer/core) not obey these laws like rest of the packages ? > (which would be acceptable I guess) Not so - we will not be breaking BC - if you run PEAR_Info under PHP 5 with PEAR 1.5, it will work exactly as documented. The only difference will be the use of "public" instead of "var" and so on. We are not going to rewrite the goddam thing until PEAR2. Greg