Re: PEAR installer and the PHP dep

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2008, at 7:42 AM, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson wrote: > >> I still want to hear from more people before I take any steps, which >> every they will be. > > I'm much more militant than anyone on this list when it comes to this. I > think people who are still using a PHP version less than 5.2 are doing so at > their own peril. I don't buy the "I'm on a shared host that doesn't have > PHP5!" argument anymore since all of the major players all have PHP5 as an > installation option. > > What Helgi has outlined seems sane to me. Drop support for PHP 4.3 and 5.0 > (I'm fine with dropping support under 5.1 too). Give everyone an ample heads > up and move forward. As others said they can always force the install if > they really want it. In case anyone was interested in some stats on 5.1 if we wanted to be so bold to exclude 5.0 - 5.1.5 It includes the download stats (installs/upgrades with the installer) for the past week, the 4.3 is just for yesterday, this is dynamic and updates everyday http://pear.php.net/~greg/stats/php51.php and http://pear.php.net/~greg/stats/php43.php 5.1.2 is surprisingly popular, any ideas why ? Regards Helgi