Re: Maia on centos 8

I wouldn't go with MongoDB.  It's no longer in Fedora due to licensing.

Personally, I am switching over to eFa, which seems to have active
development going on.  It's not as "nice" as Maia, but it's more turnkey.

-derek


On Tue, March 24, 2020 3:48 pm, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> Thanks Brian,
>
> There are a few of us left who don't want to see maia fade away. I haven't
> found a better on-premises solution.
>
> I haven't done php code in 10 years, but I'm about ready to take a swing
> at
> it, out of necessity.
>
> I wonder if maybe js and mongodb should be considered for the next
> generation.
>
> But for now, I guess I'll have to see if I can get php-7.2 talking to
> mysql
> with the pear MDB2 modules, and go from there.
>
> Jake
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:02 PM Brian McCullough <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:46:17AM -0700, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>>
>> Hi Jake,
>>
>>
>> > maia works well for me on centos 7, but not on centos 8, with php-7.2
>> >
>> > Actually the perl part is golden, and configtest.pl works fine. But
>> the
>> php
>> > side of things is broken, and configtest.php fails miserably.
>> >
>> > It looks the diverging code bases of php, smarty, pear and maia are
>> the
>> > issue.
>> >
>> > Has anybody had any success getting maia running with php-7.2? If so,
>> I'd
>> > be curious what tweaks you had to make. I found that as installed,
>> > configtest.php says it can't connect to the database, but tcpdump
>> shows
>> > that not a single packet gets sent to the specified db server.
>> >
>> > If nobody has any new info, I guess I'll have to look at the old code
>> and
>> > try to figure out what's broken.
>>
>> I haven't looked at the Maia code for some time, but have had to move
>> some projects from PHP 5.6 to 7.x.  Of course, depending on the value of
>> x, the answer changes.  PHP 7.x has changed, more or less significantly,
>> from PHP 5.6.  Most likely, what is happening to you is that there are
>> errors being reported, internally, but PHP 7, but they are being hidden
>> from you.  These errors are changes in the language causing syntax
>> errors and such in Maia.
>>
>> A project to update the Maia code from PHP 5 has been discussed at
>> least a couple of times, but, as far as I know, never been completed, if
>> even actually started.
>>
>> If you wanted to take that on, there are several of us who would be VERY
>> grateful.  Some of us might even be willing to assist.
>>
>>
>> > Jake
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> ( Tried to answer with the wrong e-mail address! )
>>
>>
>>
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