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

Dave Hall wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 16:49 +0200, Olivier Berger wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Le jeudi 25 mars 2010 à 00:31 +1100, Dave Hall a écrit :
>>>> Can you point me to some more details about incompatibility with PHP
>>>> 5.3 ?
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>> I'm dubious... it spits a lot of errors in apache logs, but it seems
>> phpgroupware 0.9.16.015 nevertheless works (screens look nice right
>> after installation) when installed on a Debian testing machine (with PHP
>> 5.3).
>>
>> If you had real examples of what breaks exactly, and how hard (or not)
>> it is to fix or workaround, it'd be really helpful.
> 
> There is a lot of places in the code where phpGW assumes objects are
> passed by value not by reference - especially the db object.  To work
> around that phpGW relied on zend.ze1_compatibility_mode being set to
> true.  zend.ze1_compatibility_mode was dropped in PHP 5.3 (see
> http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php ) and so I expect a lot of things
> to break.  I don't have time to run a phpGW install on one of my PHP5.3
> test boxes atm to document what has broken.  There is no easy work
> around for this either.
> 

This is all taken care of in 0.9.17.525 (trunk) - also: (almost) all external 
libraries are updated to latest.

stable:
* phpgwapi
* addressbook
* admin
* hrm
* manual (odt2xhtml is updated to latest and moved to api - not yet  committed)
* messenger
* notes
* phpsysinfo (status: 3.0 - updated to latest (3.0.4) but not yet committet)
* preferences
* property
* setup
* sms

Not sure - but probably working:
* todo
* calendar (might be some issues with recurrence/alarm management)
* email
* felamimail
* ged
* projects (major update from .16 - some mysql-only issues i think)

(Don't know how the remaining apps are doing.)

Regards

Sigurd