Re: Re: do PEAR packages work with all PHP4 verions?

From: Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 20:10:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: do PEAR packages work with all PHP4 verions?
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The PEAR installer requires 4.1.0. Some PEAR classes may work with as old versions as 4.0.4pl1, but I definitely don't recommend anything older than 4.1.2. - Stig On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 18:49, Jesus M. Castagnetto wrote: > Conservatively, I would suggest 4.2.x at least for PEAR. As *officially* PEAR's > site (which lists the packages) was released along w/ PHP 4.3.0, that version > would be even better. > > Some packages indicate the minimum version of PHP that they need to run, but > not all do. If you encounter one that does not have that information, either > contact the maintainer or submit a bug report (bugs.php.net). In that way the > package.xml (the package description file) will be updated to avoid this > problem in the future. > > HTH > > --- Jeroen Houben <jeroen@terena.nl> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If I run an older version of PHP (4.1.2) will I be likely bump into > > errors/warnings because > > some PEAR packages use functions/variables that aren't available / have > > different names in > > 4.1.2 ? > > > > Jeroen > > > > > > > > -- > > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > ===== > --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) > > Research: > http://metallo.scripps.edu/ > Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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