How to Handle BC Breaking PEAR Packages
Tweet The PEAR group recently published New Guidelines for BC breaking releases. The idea is simple, for example one variant would be: Old API: MyPackage-1.2.tgz New API: MyPackage_2-0.9.tgz
Tweet The PEAR group recently published New Guidelines for BC breaking releases. The idea is simple, for example one variant would be: Old API: MyPackage-1.2.tgz New API: MyPackage_2-0.9.tgz
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Tweet Zak and Georg held a presentation on the new PHP MySQL extension (mysqli) in Hamburg. I’ve attended this presentation where they summarized all the infos about the latest development. Their slides are available online – a must-read for all Continue reading
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Tweet Today, the current issue of iX has published my article on transactions in MySQL. It’s a comprehensive and brief introduction to the topic. The text is written in German. To obtain it, you buy iX at a kiosk or Continue reading
Tweet Today, I became a member of OSCOM. I am particularly proud of this membership, because the spirit of OSCOM is unique, the current members are great individuals, and the objective a necessity: The goal is to bring together as Continue reading
Tweet … is the question of a current thread being discussed on pear-dev. Discussion mainly circles around “forking” PEAR to make a PEAR2 which might break BC to previous packages, run on PHP5 only, etc. Some quotes: Stopping in the Continue reading
Tweet Finally I got my new Netgear WAG511 installed on SuSe 9.0. Here are some tips: 1. Carefully read SuSe’s instructions at http://portal.suse.de/sdb/en/2002/11/wavelan.html. 2. Then, as suggested there, read very carefully ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/README and procede as described. 3. Now you can Continue reading