Re: Killing off XML_Tree, or bringing it with us to PEAR2

Hi Daniel, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

Option 1 is my favourite, but the most effort (and look how hard it was to get HTTP_Request2 in place), and needs a migration guide.

You know, it took so long to get HTTP_Request2 in place because getting it in place actually required writing a brand new package. No, make it two brand new packages since Net_URL2 became usable only after Christian Schmidt rewrote it. Here we are talking about migrating from one *existing* package to the other.

Ah yeah, but even after you'd put in the hard yards, there was still a slow-as-molasses uptake for swapping from HTTP_Request to HTTP_Request2, despite the both of us hassling :)

In fact you are wrong again, swapping mostly went from cURL extension to HTTP_Request2, since PHP5 packages didn't use HTTP_Request in the first place and PHP4 package authors don't bother rewriting. :) The only thing that did switch HTTP_Request -> HTTP_Request2 is Services_W3C_HTMLValidator, I think.