Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] PHP3 support

[Miles Lott]

I think I must be the only developer here that is testing
on php3.  It can be a pain to get both working on the same
box, so I have a machine dedicated to it.  I do not get to
check that often, but when I do I am not afraid to commit
the fixes ;)  I will surely check as much as I can prior
to release.

Leonardo Gomes Figueira wrote:
> 
> 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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