Re: What happens to PEAR with Zend Engine2?

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Ferdinand Beyer wrote: > Hi! > > I'm new to this mailing list and did not manage to search the archives > as the search engine at list.php.net is offline. That's why I couldn't > figure out if this question has already been asked so please don't kill > me if I am asking it again :-) > > What I want to know is what will happen to PEAR with the new Zend > engine release: > > - What happens to the PEAR base class when its functionality - > destructors and error handling - is performed by the engine? We're trying to make it work more or less transparently. That is, you can still set up a default PEAR error handler and so on. The only thing I'm having some problems with is how to make expectError/popExpect work nicely with exceptions (it basically is a poor man's try/catch, so rewriting the code for the few places using it may be just as good as bending over to make it compatible). > - Will PEAR define an API for exception classes? Yes. It'll be the same one as today, but if you write "ZE2 only" code there'll be less PEAR::isError() checking because raiseError() will throw an exception. > - Will PEAR keep its package system? Definitely. We will use dependencies and/or package status to signal which packages support/require ZE2/PHP5. > - Have you already started thinking about that / implementing / testing > new code? Yes. > - If no, when will you start to "translate" current packages? That is up to the maintainers of each package. The core will be translated in a couple of months. - Stig