Re: A status question, and php-5.4 updates

Adam,

> Hello, squirrelmail! I am a longtime SM user, starting from back
> when----well, when the javascript address book was too advanced for some
> of the browsers at work :-) I am also a FreeBSD committer, and the
> maintainer of the FreeBSD squirrelmail port.
>
> I know that this is a question that OSS development teams hate getting
> pestered with, but I was wondering if you could give me an idea of when
> 1.4.23 may see the light of day? If momentum has stalled and there is no
> projected plans for a release coming, that's totally okay and I'll work
> on collecting patches to update our port.
>
> The main thing that I'd like to backport if 1.4.23 is on an indefinite
> delay would be fixes for php-5.4 compatibility. Due to the mechanics of
> our ports system (which encourages building from source), I get a lot
> of confused emails due to us erroring out at php > 5.3.
>
> I've identified and backported r14343 (plugins/message_details
> session_unregister->sqsession_unregister), and r14276
> (plugins/mail_fetch hex2bin clobbering). Are there other patches
> that I should be including as php-5.4 fixes? What is your level of
> confidence regarding 5.4 compatibility in 1.4.23-devel?
>
> I really appreciate you taking the time to help me clear up the status
> and the 5.4 fixes. Thanks, and have a great weekend!

Thanks for the way you approached your inquiry.  We get plenty of
thankless/deserving inquiries that don't provide much in the way of
motivation.  Your attitude is pleasurable to interact with.

Nothing is on indefinite hold, but I also cannot tell you when 1.4.23
will be released.  This past year, I personally had targeted the
transition of all our translations to utf-8 amongst a few other
things.  PHP 5.4 compatibility is also something that's become
important to address.  However, due to lack of resources and
unexpected changes in personal circumstances, this year has been
somewhat of a wash.

I do hope that 1.4.23 is out sooner than later.  One thing that would
help with that is if people help test and refine the patches on this
tracker:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100311&aid=3491925&group_id=311

That tracker will also help you find more PHP 5.4 patches if you
decide you need to collect them and pull them into your port.  I'd
also search through the SVN copy of doc/ChangeLog and our
squirrelmail-cvs mailing list for "PHP 5.4".

Cheers,

  Paul

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Paul Lesniewski
SquirrelMail Team
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