[horde] Horde_Imap_Client-2.3.1 does not work

[Andrew Morgan]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Michael M Slusarz wrote:

> Quoting Vilius Šumskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:
>
>> To rephrase, if Horde developers have chosen PHP as a language, then 
>> they must obey the rules of the language. If it is buggy and breaks 
>> compatibility in ugly way, they must hack.
>
> Please read my original message: we DID obey the rules of the 
> language.  That's the problem.  You write perfectly valid PHP 5.3.0 
> code, and it isn't interpreted correctly due to a bug in the 
> interpreter.  WHICH WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING (unless you are arguing 
> that we, as developers, have to read the 162KB changelog of PHP 5 and 
> glean from one line changelog entries that our code won't work 
> properly with a certain PHP version).

I think it is reasonable (as someone else already did) to report this as a 
bug in the Debian PHP package.  If there is a reasonable work-around that 
can be coded into Horde, that would be nice also.  If you don't want to 
code a work-around, then maybe the documentation should say that PHP 
v5.3.9 (?) is now required.

 	Andy