Re: Pulling Net_LDAP 1.2.0

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:49 PM, till <klimpong@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson > <helgith@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Beni, > > > > I had to pull Net_LDAP 1.2.0 since you can't change to PHP 5 in the > middle > of a stable cycle, you have to create a whole new package > Net_LDAP2 to do > such a backwards compatibility break, you would know this > if you had read > the developer guides, this is the essence of PEAR, keep > BC of the API after > you've gone stable and jumping from PHP 4 to 5 is > enough to break BC. > > > > Hopefully you can make the appropriate changes, create a new CVS dir, > commit > the new code there and revert in the old dir so that you can do > bug fixes to > the old code. > > Good time to ask that question - my impression was (and please correct me > if I am wrong ;-)), that you do not have to do a new package, but a new > major version release. In Net_LDAP's case, a 2.0 release. I copied > Christian on this email, since we just talked about it last week. > > Maybe this needs to be clearer in the docs. I couldn't figure out where > it's written down (googled: site:pear.php.net +manual +php5 > +php4 -bug) - either way, Foo2 or Foo-2.0 and I think it needs to be > documented. > > Till > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > The approved RFC that I found that covers this is at http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=65 -- CRB