Re: PEAR installer and the PHP dep

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <helgith@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ? ... > 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. My reason for suggesting this was that the difference between what versions are supported/required might not be as easy as a boolean true or false - despite what the PEAR installer & package.xml supports. :-) > 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 ? A quote - "You must do what you feel is right, of course." -- Brett Bieber http://saltybeagle.com/