Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] PHP_CodeSniffer-1.3.0a1 (alpha) Released.

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 05:04 +0000, PEAR Announce wrote: > The new PEAR package PHP_CodeSniffer-1.3.0a1 (alpha) has been released at > http://pear.php.net/. > <snip> Hi Greg, This is an impressive milestone for PHP Code Sniffer and certainly indicates a bright future for the package. A number of developers have tried out the alpha and have some concerns about backwards compatibility. It seems the change from PHP based rule definitions to XML based rules causes problems for people who have already developed custom rulesets. I think an ideal solution would be to provide backwards compatibility for the old CodingStandards.php method of writing rulesets and encourage developers to update to the newer (and in my opinion better) XML rulesets. You could use @deprecated in the API docs to indicate where APIs should no longer be used. While backwards compatibility doesn't have to be addressed for further alpha releases, it should be fixed before 1.3.0 goes stable. Cheers, Mike