Re: Manage PHP version during pecl install

Hi all, >> With upcoming PHP 7 some extension maintainers have choose to >> maintain 2 different version, one for PHP 5, another for PHP 7 >> >> Digging a little in the PEAR code, I think it will be nice to check >> extension PHP minimal version against current PHP version. >> >> But, IIUC, this will require to extend the REST schema (1.4 ?) to >> include this information. > > I had similar thoughts in february this year; see > https://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=20507 I just saw that allreleases2.xml (introduced with REST 1.3[1]) contains the minimum version information, e.g. http://pear.php.net/rest/r/console_getopt/allreleases2.xml <r><m>5.4.0</m></r> So there is no need to extend the REST schema, just adjust PEAR to take it into account. BUT pecl doesn't support[2] REST 1.2 nor REST 1.3, so that would have to be done. [1] http://pear.php.net/manual/en/core.rest.php [2] https://pecl.php.net/channel.xml -- Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christian Weiske -= Geeking around in the name of science since 1982 =-