Quoting Robin Bankhead <ho...@headbank.co.uk>:
Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubi...@horde.org>:
Quoting Robin Bankhead <ho...@headbank.co.uk>:
Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slus...@horde.org>:
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I *really* think this is probably the issue though. My memory is
that there were bugs in the past relating to PHP variable
references that may cause this kind of behavior. And I would
also classify PHP 5.3.1 as ancient ... it's over 5 years old. I
personally would not want to be running 5 year old code that is
potentially publicly accessible to the Internet, if just for
security reasons.
michael
Personally I wouldn't either, but it's not, so I have the luxury
of prioritising the stability of my codebase. Even so, I bet
you'd find plenty of web hosts where 5.3 is still deployed - the
need to guarantee *functional* continuity/stability is pretty big
in that context too. I rather imagined that was why horde's
INSTALL file specifies the requirement as 5.3.0 and up.
Actually, 5.3.0 refers to the PHP *API*, not to anything specific
to the PHP internals such as bug fixes. It only means that our code
utilizes functionality that may not be available until 5.3.0 and
does not rely on anything that isn't documented as being available
in the 5.3.0 API.
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mike
I see. In that case I'll upgrade to the latest stable php-5.3.*,
will that be satisfactory?
That's the best move.
As those that frequent the list know, I am not a big fan of the way
certain linux distributions handle packages. Using PHP as an example:
you are essentially trading the PHP developers opinion/expertise on
bugfixes (within a specific 5.x release) for a package maintainers
opinion ... with the caveat that not only is the package maintainer
possibly cherrypicking the patches, but the package maintainer also is
responsible for resolving the inevitable conflict issues that are
going to occur when the full subset of changes is not made.
PHP can be pretty bad API wise moving between point releases (i.e. 5.3
-> 5.4). But there are few/any problems we have experienced when
moving within a point release (i.e. 5.3.10 -> 5.3.11).
michael
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