Re: PEAR installer and the PHP dep

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <helgith@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Brett Bieber <brett.bieber@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If increasing the requirement to 4.4 will help the development of PEAR >> - I think it makes sense to move forward. But I think we should >> increase it for more than just - "those old versions are rusty" - if >> you get my meaning. >> >> Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% for this, but I think we need to document >> the specifics of why old versions would be no longer supported. > > Yeah well 5.0 is kinda straight forward exclusion, it's a first branch > of a new major release and should be avoided when this old - a lot of > issues that cause maintainers a lot of heartache would be my simplest > answer. Eh, this would be one I would classify as, not good enough. It's the "a lot of issues" part that I think should be documented. -- not official documentation per-se, but aired out in public somewhere. > for 4.3 -> 4.4 I have no simple answer since it's one of those just > because, PEAR runs fine on 4.3 but not actively tested on it but we do > need to nudge users forward and well memory corruption issues ... 4.4 > fixed that ;) hehe Hmm, now I'm thinking of Yahoo's graded browser support page --- http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/index.html A = 5.2, 4.4 etc etc. Known working - fully supported. B = 5.1 X = 5.0, 4.3, 6.0 unknown/unexpected, don't expect us to respond to any bug reports on these versions That way we could say --- we know it works, and we fully support versions Foo, Bar, Baz, but if you're using Fit, Bit, Ban, you're on your own. -- Brett Bieber http://saltybeagle.com/