Re: Prepping for Ubuntu Lucid & Pushing PEAR2, Pyrus

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com> wrote: > On April 29th, a stable version of Lucid is getting released (see > http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta2). Lucid has PHP 5.3; > and since > Ubuntu is a fairly popular distro; I imagine a lot of the E_DEPRECATED bugs > we are already getting are going to increase in volume. > > I'm also sure a lot of windows and other distro users are already migrating > over to 5.3; so this is a good time to do this. > > To head off the tirade of bugs: > 1) I'd like to push pearweb changes out. > http://test.pear.php.net/ > http://test.pear.php.net/package/Console_Color > http://test.pear.php.net/package/Console_Color/download > > This gives us a pretty clear Hey, you need pear packages on 5.3? GO HERE Sweet. > 2) Someone (I don't currently have a 5.3 development environment) needs to > improve http://pear2.php.net/ to have the words PHP 5.3+ > required etched > into it. Are Brett/others available to do this? > If we don't, curious users are going to try out pyrus and get stumped by the > parse errors. > Then the mailing list posts start. Sure. > 3) The packages page needs to refer back to PEAR1. > IE: > http://pear2.php.net/?view=packages > "Don't see what you need? Many of the pear1 packages you know and love are > still available (link)". > Are Brett/others available to do this? > > If we don't, a lot of people are going to spam us with "PEAR2 has > nothing!?!?!!!" messages. Sure. > Any takers? Otherwise, I'm going to put some time aside, upgrade myself, and > then resume whinging here :) Check it out — http://test.pear2.php.net/ -- Brett Bieber