[PEPr] Comment on RFC::Prefix all packages with P_

Ilia Alshanetsky (http://pear.php.net/user/iliaa) has commented on the proposal for RFC::Prefix all packages with P_. Comment: In the best case scenario if PHP 6 were to be released this year as stable it would take many years before it would take any market share. I mean PHP 5 has been out for over a year and is barely at 10% adoption and BC changes between it and 4 are relatively minor compared to what PHP 6 will introduce. This means for the next couple of years you need to plan on PHP4/PHP5 based code and cannot rely on namespaces which may not even be part of PHP 6. Furthermore, taking up of common names by PEAR classes is a problem waiting to happen as exemplified by "date" class and in the future needs of the language (PHP) will always trump needs of outlaying classes/libraries. This means that if the names are not changed, don't be surprised to see same names used by PHP itself causing conflicts for users/developers of affected classes. Proposal information: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=420 -- Sent by PEPr, the automatic proposal system at http://pear.php.net