[horde] Horde_Imap_Client-2.3.1 does not work

Samuel Wolf samuelwolf85 at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 6 21:36:26 UTC 2012


2012/12/6 Samuel Wolf <samuelwolf85 at googlemail.com>:
> 2012/12/6 Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>> To clarify:
>>
>> It's one thing to be an API change that was made in a specific PHP version.
>> This can be worked around and is known at the time the code is written.
>>
>> However, the present issue is entirely a PHP issue - not a Horde/IMP issue.
>> The code added to Horde/IMP is 100% valid code according to the PHP 5.3
>> documentation.
>>
>> The problem is that people are relying on 2+ year old software.
>> Distribution packaging may work for a user application.  It does not work
>> for a package that contains a documented, final-word API, like PHP.
>>
>> Running a 2 year old programming language interpreter (+ security patches!)
>> is not acceptable in the real world.  This is just another example.
>

@ Mike, sorry send it again to the list.

Mike, I understand your position but do not forget debian stable is a
server OS who really many people or company use.
By the way, it is the first time I have such a problem.

I create a bug report for php5 in debian squeeze:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695310


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