Re: PHP 5

----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre-Alain Joye" <pajoye@wanadoo.fr> To: <pear-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] PHP 5 > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:13:04 +0100 > Wolfram Kriesing <lists@kriesing.de> wrote: > > if we go for a 2-repository solution, how much extra work does it > > mean? > > does every bug have to be fixed twice? > > do you have to check in changes twice? > > > > i think new classes should run on PHP5, the old once should be > > converted to run under php5 and maintainence should be provided for > > the php4 only on request/bug fixes, etc. new features may only go > > into the php5 version. > > It may be sounds cruel to those who use php4 but will everybody be > > able to do double work? > > or should there be some kind of deadline until when php4-packages are > > maintained? > 2 repository should be a good solution. To spare work, we can freeze the php4 > branch. Only bugs corrections could be applied in the php4 branch. New features > and code rewrite for the new one. > This sounds ok fore new releases but what about peoples who have php4 and want to download, the lates auth package for example, how will they know that they have to get the auth-php4 package and not auth-latest package. I think that for releases this is the way to do it but for packages will lead to a lot of confutions;. I agree however that maintaining two repositories is not a good solution. They branching seems more sensible move to make, but we must make sure that users downloading package xyz.tar.gz know that it will not work with php4, maybe somthing in the installer sould chack a compatibility tag in the package.xml file saying <compatible>5.0</compatible> then during installation the installer will check the running php version and instruct the user that this package will not work with the version of php he has running, another idea to make this easier for users is to have a check in PEAR.php for the version, somthing like pear::checkCompatibility() and use it in all PHP5 only packages to warn the user. Yavor