Greg Beaver wrote:
>  Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> >
> > - a conditional dependency, to do : if php < 5 then require php_compat
>  
>  This is too complicated from the installer end.  You can, of course,
>  make it so that the file containing the function is only installed if
>  PHP < 5.

Do you mean "only installed" or "only require()'d" ? The former is precisely 
what I would call a "conditional dependency". Is this possible ?

> > - or "pear package-validate" to detect that php_compat was required, and
> > issue an error
>  
>  That would be essentially putting a really brilliant brain inside
>  package-validate, something that is, to say the least, extremely
>  complicated.

Okay. Fortunately we have Justin and Pierre's brains to detect that sort of QA 
issues ;-)

>  In other words, that will never be a standard part of PEAR version 1.x.
>   There is some remote possibility that PEAR2 (vaporware atm) could be
>  modular enough to support something with this using PHP_Parser, but
>  that's WAYYYYY in the future.

Okay, no problem.

Another point, that I may post a feature request for :

We have unbundled all drivers from Structures_DataGrid, and to be gentle with 
users' hard drives we chose to make all drivers optional, as in MDB2.

But, that makes a big difference with prior releases, when people just needed to 
install one package to get something working. Now, it won't work until you 
install at least a rendering and a datasource driver.

The best thing to ease the upgrade, IMO, would be that the pear installer issues 
warnings directly to standard output. A new <warning>  like tag in package xml 
v2, where we could put whatever we want, would be precious in this regard.

What do you think ?

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