Re: PEAR installer and the PHP dep

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Brett Bieber <brett.bieber@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. I must say - Why ? That's still mean I'd have to keep the min requirement at 4.3 and allow 5.0 installations ... which is what I was hoping we could get rid of somehow - Most, if not all projects I know of out there have 4.4 and 5.1+ deps claiming exactly what I've been saying, at least I can't see why we should add some funny table with some "works, doesn't work" into our manual since well ... I think our manual is not structured well enough for users to find this kind of information easily. Makes me tho wonder a bit why this dep bump would need such docs and not our 4.2 -> 4.3 move, don't misunderstand me tho - I do see where you are coming from with this, we should be open to our developers and end users on issues like this. How about this compromise, we add 4.3.11 as min dep (latest 4.3 release) and we throw in a recommend 5.2 ... Not sure what I'd want to do with 5.0, ideally I'd want to disallow all 5.0 except for the latest one - so we keep with the 4.3 schema ... we can observe the uptake of the newest PEAR release and how that reflects on the PHP versions being used, if people are actually upgrading or not, does that sound like a more acceptable solution for this PEAR release and perhaps the 4.4 and 5.0 exclusion for 1.9 ? Just another idea tho with my first one ... Regards Helgi