[Vtigercrm-developers] PHP versions

[Scott Earle]

Oh, I agree completely, and I do not wish to offend or annoy anybody. Working as I do in software development for a large company, I do know that the Real World is very different to this idealised place where everything is fluffy and happy all the time. But we only ever read about the mythical fluffy place …

I use Google’s AdWords API on a daily basis, so I know a thing or two about functionality being deprecated - they do it every three or four months, and with extremely little notice.

So yes - use stable code wherever possible, and try to make stuff as future-proof as it is possible to make it.

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Scott

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On 18 Oct 2013, at 21:44, Sreenivas Kanumuru <svk at vtiger.com> wrote:

> One could possibly argue that there has been plenty of time in which to come up with a solution that does not use that feature, given that it was deprecated in 2005.
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> He/She would win that argument. But, there are other factors at play, such as stability of a PHP release, and whether bundled libraries in Vtiger are moving forward (ex: ADODB). And we are constrained also on the time we can invest in keeping up with latest versions. With Vtiger 6, we have made a step in shedding some legacy code. We will take another step with 6.1
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> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Scott Earle <scottearle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good evening all,
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> Just to jump in with my thoughts, but it has been mentioned that call-time pass-by-reference was deprecated, and that Vtiger CRM makes heavy use of this feature.
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> One could possibly argue that there has been plenty of time in which to come up with a solution that does not use that feature, given that it was deprecated in 2005.
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> Best regards,
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> Scott
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> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Sreenivas Kanumuru <svk at vtiger.com> wrote:
> PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5 have backward incompatible changes. For instance, Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated (this is used widely in Vtiger CRM and in underlying libraries such as ADODB). We will look into this further after 6.0 release. Vtiger CRM 6.0 will only work with PHP 5.3. 
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> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:08 PM, <stprasad at stprasad.com> wrote:
> True, the responsibilty would have to be that of the developer, or designer working within real world constraints.
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> We like the system for what it allows us to do, with time, effort, stuff like this can be weeded out.
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> What about 6? Did anyone see anything?
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> Regards, ST Prasad
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> From: Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com>
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> On 18/10/13 12:05, stprasad at stprasad.com wrote:
> > IMHO, I would not blame PHP in this case.
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> lol - yeah - just turn on E_DEPRECATED & E_STRICT to see how much stuff
> needs work...
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> Al
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