[imp] Error with Kronolith and PHP 7

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von poubeline at free.fr:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have just upgraded my Horde Webmail to the latest version and I  
>> have the following error in my logs regarding Kronolith and date  
>> format :
>>
>> | [Fri Sep 22 15:35:56.317874 2017] [:error] [pid 1706] [client  
>> 192.168.1.254:54176] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as  
>> their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP;  
>> Date_Holidays has a deprecated constructor in  
>> /usr/share/php/Date/Holidays.php on line 91, referer:  
>> https://<my_server_url>/kronolith/
>> | [Fri Sep 22 15:35:56.321707 2017] [:error] [pid 1706] [client  
>> 192.168.1.254:54176] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as  
>> their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP;  
>> Date has a deprecated constructor in /usr/share/php/Date.php on  
>> line 123, referer: https://<my_server_url>/kronolith/
>> | [Fri Sep 22 15:35:56.325672 2017] [:error] [pid 1706] [client  
>> 192.168.1.254:54176] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as  
>> their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP;  
>> Date_TimeZone has a deprecated constructor in  
>> /usr/share/php/Date/TimeZone.php on line 70, referer:  
>> https://<my_server_url>/kronolith/
>> | [Fri Sep 22 15:35:56.331302 2017] [:error] [pid 1706] [client  
>> 192.168.1.254:54176] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as  
>> their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP;  
>> Date_Span has a deprecated constructor in  
>> /usr/share/php/Date/Span.php on line 114, referer:  
>> https://<my_server_url>/kronolith/
>> | [Fri Sep 22 15:35:56.332119 2017] [:error] [pid 1706] [client  
>> 192.168.1.254:54176] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as  
>> their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP;  
>> Date_Holidays_Holiday has a deprecated constructor in  
>> /usr/share/php/Date/Holidays/Holiday.php on line 36, referer:  
>> https://<my_server_url>/kronolith/
>> | [Fri Sep 22 15:35:56.333058 2017] [:error] [pid 1706] [client  
>> 192.168.1.254:54176] PHP Deprecated: Methods with the same name as  
>> their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP;  
>> Date_Holidays_Driver has a deprecated constructor in  
>> /usr/share/php/Date/Holidays/Driver.php on line 125, referer:  
>> https://<my_server_url>/kronolith/
>>
>> Is there something to do on my server (install a new 'date' package  
>> for PHP 7)? Or is it something to change for the next release of  
>> Kronolith?
>>
>> I run a Debian Stretch server with PHP 7.1 and the latest patches.
>>
>> Thanks
>
> It's a 3rd-party library that Kronolith uses. Not much we can do about.

Kronolith not only uses PEAR/Date, it is a required package. So this  
is not something optional one can do without. The last stable release  
was 10+ years ago and even the latest alpha release is almost 4 years  
old.

https://pear.php.net/package/Date

Off course, one can hope that someone takes over maintainership, but  
unless that hope actually materializes, it may be worthwhile to look  
for alternatives.