Re: Dead project : no updates of released branches ... not anymore possible to package for distributions ?

Dave Hall <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:31:57 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.phpgroupware.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 14:06 +0100, Olivier Berger wrote:
> Le mercredi 24 mars 2010 =C3=A0 13:04 +0100, Benoit Hamet a =C3=A9crit =
:

> > That's a long time discussed problem. Either try to maintain a mostly
> > dead code that will not be supporting > php5.2 (AFAIK this should be =
the
> > next php version in Debian isn't it ?), or try to move on with a new
> > code, supporting >=3D php 5.2.
> >=20
>=20
> Can you point me to some more details about incompatibility with PHP
> 5.3 ?
>=20
> Because that would indeed be a show stopper for next stable (squeeze), =
I
> think.

phpGW 0.9.16 depends on the PHP4 object handling hack ( aka
ini_set('zend.ze1_compatibility_mode', 1); ) which was dropped in PHP5.3

There is no easy way around this, without it phpGW is pretty much
useless.

Feel free to quote this in any bug report.

Cheers

Dave