Re: Maia on centos 8

I think the best thing would be to fix the problems with php7.2 / 7.3 and
after working the 2.0 branch with some improvements and future ones, don't
forget the most important economic support, I think that all open software
always deserves donations.

Regards.


El El mar, 24 de mar. de 2020 a la(s) 17:53, Ed <ed-9FOcALY/[email protected]> escribió:

> Hi Robert,
>
> We still use Maia in a production environment and it works well!
>
> My suggestion would be both.
>
> Initially bring Maia into supported versions of PhP as well as all the
> rest.
>
> Once that's stabilized, then start a migration to 2.0 however that may
> look.  I believe this provides more options.
>
> JMHO
> --Ed
>
> On 3/24/20 6:07 PM, Robert LeBlanc wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > It’s certainly been a long time since I’ve seen any real activity on
> this list, but it’s encouraging to see that there are still some people out
> there using Maia in one form or another.  Or perhaps it’s a bit sad that in
> all these years you haven’t found an alternative product that you like
> better; i.e. other developers haven’t incorporated the features you liked
> best about Maia.
> >
> > I’m still using Maia myself, perhaps unsurprisingly, but its limitations
> are beginning to show, and of course like all aging software it becomes
> fragile—updates to any of the components it relies on could break it at any
> time, whether it’s a PHP module, or PHP itself.  I’m actually kind of
> impressed it hasn’t broken on the Perl module end of things.  Without
> maintenance, Maia’s days are numbered.
> >
> > The question, then, is whether we’re talking about just “fixing it up”
> to make the existing codebase work with PHP 7.x and current PHP modules, or
> whether this is the time to re-architect the whole thing and do something a
> bit more ambitious.
> >
> > Both of these would require an investment of time, and usually that has
> been the big obstacle to overcome—I’m working full-time these days in the
> health care field, so free time has been precious to me.  On the other
> hand, COVID-19 has graciously provided a lot of us with “time off” to work
> from home, so it’s looking like I may have a block of time to work on a
> project like this.  (Hey, if Newton came up with his best work while cooped
> up during the Great Plague of London, the rest of us can surely get
> *something* done, right?  ;)
> >
> > Anyhow, for the moment let’s just focus on that question:
> >
> >       (a) Update Maia to work with PHP 7.x (i.e. no redesign, no new
> features)
> > or    (b) Ground-up redesign with fresh ideas and tech (i.e. Maia 2.0)
> >
> > It looks like we may have a few months to make some real progress on
> this, so which direction would you like us to go?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
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