Re: [PEAR] PEAR packages on PHP 5.6

Hello Stephanas,



> Q1. What is the solution to these warnings? Is there any update
> planned for these packages? Is it advisable at all to ignore these
> warnings?

The correct solution is to fix the code which produces the warnings.
The quick solution is to disable E_DEPRECATED and E_STRICT warnings.

We'd gladly apply patches and release new versions of packages that
have those problems.

> To strengthen security, we are considering moving away from MDB2 to
> PDO.

Why would that be more secure?


> Q2. LiveUser has been a very dear package to us. But unfortunately,
> there seems to be no update on this class for a long time. If we were
> to consider moving away from it, can you advise as good an equivalent
> class that can handle authentication / authorization (role and access
> management) etc.

I don't have any advice, but you could actually send patches fix the
LiveUser code. The QA team could then make a new release with the
patches included.

-- 
Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian Weiske

-=≡ Geeking around in the name of science since 1982 ≡=-

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