RE: [PEAR-DEV] PHP 5

On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 12:13, Lukas Smith wrote: > So where are we? > Aside from issues of 2 branches or 2 repositories I think it has to > decided if the PHP4 part of PEAR will get more attention than just > bugfixes or not. > > I think that for atleast 1 year the PHP4 part should still be enhanced. > So I am opposed to (feature) freezing PHP4 development with the release > of PHP5. At the end of the day, if a maintainer has converted completely to PHP 5, it's unreasonable to demand from him that he continues to support PHP 4 in a parallel release branch unless he wants to. Likewise, if someone is sticking with PHP 4 for a year longer, it is unreasonable to demand PHP 5 releases. In practice, I think what will happen for most packages is that at some point, the main development switches from PHP 4 to PHP 5. All the releases for PHP 4 are archived, and the maintainers will probably push out the occasional bugfix release. This is probably how it has to work in a collection of open source components. The main problem is interoperability: what happens if you need features from packages X and Y, but package Y didn't get them until some PHP 5-based release? This tells me that core (PFC) packages need to support both PHP 4 and PHP 5 actively for quite a while, while non-core packages are more free to take the leap when they see fit. This was only part of the discussion I was trying to start though. I am also interested to hear what people think about the other issues. I'll outline what I have in mind in separate threads to get the rest going. - Stig

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