Re: Drop PHP4 compatibility

+1 @Alec: I think forking this package would be a great idea. I think in this case you could just discontinue supporting Mail_Mime and mark it superceeded on the website. If it's trivial for people to update, I don't see why people wouldn't follow. Thanks for your hard work on Mail_* related packages! Till On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com>wrote: > Unfortunately, I'd say you'd want to in this case. > I'm been refactoring the heck out of the Math_* packages to pick up PHP5 - > but only because they are still < 1.0.0 / stable. > > We haven't knowingly broken BC in a long time. > > I know there's other packages out there - PHPUnit for instance - which are > happy to break BC between releases, and the world has moved on without much > arm waving. > > > If you want, I'll happily contribute to a Mail_Mime2 on github. > > The standard refactorings I do almost automatically: > - Kill PEAR for Exceptions > - PHP5 syntax > - Prefer dependency injection / avoid work in the constructor > - Ensure test suite is current > > ... or other old PHP4 packages that depend on it. > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:40 PM, A.L.E.C <alec@alec.pl> wrote: > > > I want to drop PHP4 compatibility in Mail_mime package. Do I really need > > to "fork" it to Mail_Mime2? I saw that's not true for some packages. > > > > -- > > Aleksander 'A.L.E.C' Machniak > > LAN Management System Developer [http://lms.org.pl] > > Roundcube Webmail Developer [http://roundcube.net] > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PGP: 19359DC1 @@ GG: 2275252 @@ WWW: http://alec.pl > > > > -- > > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > >