Re: pear is dead on php 5.3

On Jan 31, 2008 7:39 AM, Stefan Walk <et@php.net> wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2008 13:17:44 till wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2008 1:03 PM, Stefan Priebsch <stefan.priebsch@e-novative.de> > wrote: > > > Christian Weiske schrieb: > > > > So we need to find a better way to call those methods, or make pear for > > > > php < 5.3 only, or drop support for php4 in pear1 with 1.7.0. Yep, I made allusions to it to greg a few months back and he should know. > > > > > > If I may be so bold: Please drop PHP 4 support. Hehe good try but no, see below. > > > > From what I read PHP4 will still receive critical updates, which is > > why I think that as long as PHP4 is "available" to users, we cannot > > just drop support for it. I always thought that is what PEAR2 was > > meant for. > > > > What's the official EOL for PHP4? Is there such a thing? I mean, > > clearly PHP3 receives no updates anymore, so when will PHP4 be > > dropped? Honestly: When people get balls. Diplomatically: As the years went by, PHP4 has proven to be useful and widely used for a large amount of developers, users and companies. With the moving development of php5 many many users are taken to an area where..... (Basically seems like no one kn-woes) > > > > Cheers, > > Till > > There are no bugfixes for PHP4 anymore, only critical security updates. You > could do the same with pear 1.6, i'd think. No. A number of PEAR packages are still php4 and the intent has never been to drop support for php4. We still have many many users using php4.. sadly. This a purpose of PEAR2, to drop all support for PHP4 (And of course many other design decisions and ideas) Does that enlighten you days with a dark light ? :P > > Regards, > Stefan > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- David Coallier, Founder & Software Architect, Agora Production (http://agoraproduction.com) 51.42.06.70.18