Re: Re: PEAR clases don't work with PHP 5.3

El día 16 de marzo de 2010 17:01, Michael Gauthier <mike@silverorange.com> escribió: > On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 15:41 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: >> All this is being tested in a development server, so I can do testing >> of Image_Graph. >> >> >> But this would only solve the problem with THIS package, and not with >> all the others. >> >> >> Why is it such a big concern about breaking PHP4 compatibility, if >> PHP4 is deprecated? > > It's not a big concern to me, but I expect those who are running legacy > systems and relying on PHP4 compatibility being maintained would be > concerned. > > That said, if it is possible to maintain API backwards-compatibility > while still dropping PHP4 support, I would not have a problem with it. > The package.xml would just be updated to increase the required PHP > version for the next release. Existing applications running on 5.2 would > continue to run if the package was upgraded, and new applications > running on 5.3 would be possible. > > I doubt those still running PHP4 are keeping their installed PEAR > packages up-to-date anymore anyway > > Anyone see any caveats I'm not thinking of here? Totally with you on this. If you don't want or can't upgrade to PHP 5.2 or better, then they shouldn't as well upgrade PEAR packages. -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador