Marcus Boerger wrote:
Hello Pierre,
Saturday, March 1, 2008, 8:53:26 PM, you wrote:
and yeas after several years of trying to communicate and never gotten
anything back? I have told PREAR development a million times to fix code.
Now not even PEAR code is wrong but it is copied into endless amounts of
code. So it seems ignorance is bliss is what our userbase is doing. So I
need to do the same, no? On the other hand Rasmus and I spent a lot time
getting this right without affecting users to much and we infact did
encounter things that lead to bigger issues and I am not introducing tons
of workarounds.
Hi Marcus,
Holy cow my friend. You know full well that PEAR has been actively
working on an installer for PHP 5.3+, and also know full well that the
existing PEAR installer supports actual users, the majority of whom use
PHP 5.2+, but a significant minority (read thousands) still use PHP 4 on
a daily basis. We have the same upgrade problems that PHP does - some
unix distributions are still distribution PEAR 1.2 with PHP 4 by
default, and Mac OS X bundled (until recently) a really old version of
PEAR 1.3 (we've been at 1.7 for a few months now, for context).
Perhaps a little understanding of the real world would be helpful here:
people who use PEAR expect it to work with the minimum PHP supported
version, which in our case is PHP 4.3.
You also know for a fact that I have no love for PHP 4, and haven't
actually used it for years, but every time some PHP 4-related issue
creeps in, we get bug reports immediately. PEAR serves its users, period.
Can we move on from this ridiculous recurring religious debate over
nothing and please never mention it again?
Thank you,
Greg
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