Re: [PEAR-QA] minimum PHP version

On 26.12.2011 17:30, Daniel Convissor wrote:
> Hi Core and QA Folks:
> 
> pear-core's current minimum PHP version is 4.4.0.  Considering 4.4.9 was
> released in August of 2008 and 5.2 is even deprecated at this point, and
> PEAR excludes PHP 5 versions through 5.1.5, can we update the minimum
> requirement to 5.1.6, please?
> 
> I am asking due to the problem raised in
> http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=19153 lead me to make the following
> changes:
> https://github.com/pear/pear-core/commit/6cbc32b6cf79094fb267621ed2090567eca41bd4
> But those changes require PHP 5.
> 
> What are your thoughts?

People using PHP4 are not interested in PHP fixes. I think they should
also be leaved without PEAR packages' fixes. If they are using old PHP
version they must use old versions of PEAR packages too.

In my opinion our php-version-bc-break rule (package name change
required) is outdated and should be removed or should be changed to
allow increasing of min. PHP version to 5.1.6 without package name change.

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