Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors

From: Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:36:32 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove PHP 4 Constructors
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Hi,

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Alain Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:27:12PM +0000, Rowan Collins wrote:
>
>> PEAR is not a single organisation who can mass update all the
>> modules; the guidelines could be updated, if they haven't been
>> already, but there would still be a whole repository full of
>> libraries which used this.
>>
>> Now, whether that's acceptable or not, I don't know, but it does
>> highlight the size of the compatibility break.
>
> How many servers are stuck on PHP 4 ?
>
> Of those 'stuck' servers, how many have applications still under active
> development ?
>
> The point is: how many people would get annoyed if PEAR stopped supporting PHP 4 ?
>
> IMHO: making PHP 5.3+ the PEAR baseline would not seem unreasonable.

Nope. The point is, how much of that code *depends on PHP4-style
constructors*, which work perfectly fine in PHP 5.x.

Regardless, it's time to put it in the past, so a +1 from me for this RFC.

Cheers,
Andrey.


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