Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] PHP3 support

[Leonardo Gomes Figueira]

Hi,


> Bummer. We are trying to get more developers to test in PHP3, but dont
> always have time.

And i think it will get more and more difficult to get people running in 
PHP3...


> I must have left that parse error in there when I was adding in some new
> functions last weekend. Its a simple thing to fix, and not something to
> freak out about. If you use code thats in development right from CVS
> then you better be ready to handle problems.


Ok, I didn't freak out (maybe a little hehehe). Sorry.. :)

> If you want to upgrade, then thats fine. But we are going to continue to
> support PHP3 and no warning is nessesary, we just need to fix a few
> bugs. Again, if you want to use cvs dev code and you expect to pull from
> cvs any time and expect it to work, you are being foolish.


I know dev code can stop working anytime, but it hapens much more if you 
are using PHP3, that's one of the ideas i wanted to say in that message.

> Next time kindly let us know you found a bug and we will fix it, dont
> rant about development code being instable because it only makes you
> look rude and foolish.


Sorry. I didn't want to look like this.

What i wanted to say is that there is a gap between support for PHP3 and 
PHP4 and i believe this hapens because the developers don't test their 
code in 3 (and you confirmed this in the begining of this message). I'm 
not a PHP developer but i devel in other plataforms and i know what a 
pain is to maintain backward compatibility...

Like i said i've been using phpGW in PHP3 and i help with bug hunting 
but it got so difficult to keep up that i think is best for us (the 
company that i work for) to upgrade to PHP4 and help finding bugs there 
(and when phpGW becomes stable it will run in PHP4 anyway in our 
production servers so it would hapens sooner or later).

Don't get me wrong, i want to help, maybe i got too excited in my 
message but i never wanted to ofend anyone. I think you all developers 
are making an excelent job and i hope we'll have a stable product in .14 
and i will do my best to help in this job.

Bye,

   Leo


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