Re: PHP 5

Martin, "Martin Jansen" <mail@martin-jansen.de> wrote: | On 05 Feb 2002 10:14:47 +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote: | | >1. Namespaces: we should migrate our current naming scheme to a | >namespace-based one. HTML_Form becomes HTML::Form, and so on. This | >can not be done in a portable way without automatically converting | >files, or something like that. We could provide a code "downgrading" | >tool converting from PHP 5 to PHP 4 syntax, and integrate it in either | >the packaging or installation process. | | +1 for putting a conversion routine in the installation process. | | >And the $10,000 question: how much work should we put into giving | >people a smooth migration path? I would like to get everyone running | >PHP 5 ASAP, but this is of course utopic. | | A lot of people will not install PHP 5 vey quickly, because it will | break a lot of their scripts and they simply don't have the time to | change them all (*). I expect a big % of people to stick to the latest | version of PHP 4 for a pretty long time, until they finally decide | to use PHP 5. But I know that mid/large providers that have thousands of clients running at the same server will add support to PHP 5 to their servers without leave the support in Apache for PHP 4 and PHP 3. And that providers are more than 70% of the "market" I think. I have some things coded in PHP 3 that are still running. Only the PHP 2 things are down. =) So I think the best thing to do is to make PEAR "php-5-ready" as the time goes. | So I don't think we can make PEAR _only_ compatible with PHP 5 in | the short term: IMO it is really nice of us if we change the | existing stuff (like DB etc.) in a way, so that it is still | compatible to PHP 4 (with some conversion routines during the | installation perhaps), but also takes some advantages of the kewl | new PHP 5 features. I don't know how far this will work, but hope is | not forbidden, no? ;-). | | All new stuff that comes to PEAR, after a stable version of PHP 5 has | been released, does not need to run with PHP 4 of course. | | - Martin | | (*) Unless they are one of the start-ups that have more free time as | they want. :-) Cya Antonio .-===================================================================-. | Can't buy what I want because its FREE! - Pearl Jam | |-===================================================================-| | ICQ# 9253680 | Floripa | MySQL | PHP | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | `-===================================================================-'