Re: PEAR2 = PHP6 forcing our hands..

probably worth cc'ing pear-dev on stuff related to the PEAR.php class.. - core for me is more related to the installer & pearweb.. whereas PEAR.php affects almost all packages at present. I guess it's a pretty difficult line to draw though. Regards Alan Pierre wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/26/06, Alan Knowles <alan@akbkhome.com> wrote: >> If anyone has been following internals Mailing list, you may have >> noticed a discussion about static method calls. >> >> basically in PHP6 > > As I like to keep an eye (and work on) on PHP6, it is premature to > take decisions now about what can be php6. This version is 2-3 years > away from a first stable release. > > I would appreciate to do not waste too much time on some FUDs common > in all development phase of PHP. We have enough to worry about the > upcoming 5.2. > > As a side note, I'm not going to argue about any breakage in php 6.x. > Major versions allow them. Howver I will try to do not have a php > version of java, that's a sure thing. > >> While It's not 100% certain that it's going to be changed, there are a >> few objections on internals, It may be time to think about PEAR2 as a >> alpha, tidied up for PHP5/6... > > Work on a php5.1+ version of pear is already planed, it will start > after 1.6 (see below). Please, discuss or post suggestions in the > pear-core list. > >> We havent seen anyone jump up and down volunteering to take over PEAR[2] >> yet, and at most I would only volunteer just making it work with PHP5/6, >> not re-writing the error engine.. - So If you are interested, now may be >> a good time to shout and make your opinion heard... > > The current priority is pear 1.5 (cvs/pear-core HEAD), we need more > regular testers, the pecl changes require a lot of tests as well as > the new features. Then will come 1.6 with some some long awaited > additions (mostly pecl and packages with different branches). > > If you like to follow the installer developments, please read the > pear-core mailing list and pear-qa for the call for tests. > > Cheers, > --Pierre