Re: [PEAR-DEV] 2.0.0 (Re: [PEAR-DEV] PEAR 1.9.5 testing)

[email protected] (till) Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:48:28 +0200
Newsgroups php.pear.dev
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Christian Weiske <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello Vasil,
>
>
> > > If we release PEAR 1.10 requiring PHP5, then
> > > * PHP4 users will not suffer a BC break since they will be unable to
> > upgrade to 1.10
> > > * PHP5 users will not suffer a BC break since their code will
> > > continue to run happily
>
> I didn't consider that. Of course then we can use proper "static"
> keywords on PEAR::isError() and a couple of other methods in 1.10.
>
> > OK, then I agree about having PEAR 1.10 instead of PEAR 2.0.0. Pyrus
> > is after all itself more or less PEAR 2.0.0 (in fact, Pyrus assumes
> > itself supported if a package requires PEAR installer 2.0.0), so
> > having PEAR1 with a version 2.0.0 is only breaking and complicating
> > things for Pyrus, who's only problem is a lack of people contributing
> > to it.
>
> Yep, that's also a point I didn't pay attention to.
>
>
> So let's make the PHP5 only changes in 1.10.
>

I didn't know this either.

+1 to 1.10 then.

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