Re: [Mantisbt-soap-dev] [mantisbt-dev] MantisBT 1.2.13 planned change - add support for php5 native soap extension

[Robert M. <rob...@gm...>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Gianluca Sforna <gi...@gm...> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Robert Munteanu
> <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>> 1. What is your opinion about the above plan? I'm interested in
>> developers and users alike
>> 2. If you use the SOAP API, are you able to use the php5 native soap
>> extension if we remove support for using nusoap?
>
> Entreprisey distributions like RHEL/CentOS do not have access to 5.4
> in the repos (both 5 and 6 have access to a 5.3, either in the
> official repository or in the EPEL one).
>
> If we want to play nice with those users we should keep the SOAP API
> workable without requiring 5.4.
>
> Not that I'm advocating keeping nusoap around :) maybe there is a
> compelling replacement implementation we can use instead with a nice
> fallback to the native code when available?

That's a very good point. The current status is

- the SOAP API defaults to the soap extension if available, otherwise
falls back to nusoap
- the soap extension is available on CentOS 5.7 - PHP 5.1 and SLES 11
SP2 - PHP 5.2

I think this should be enough.

Robert

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