Re: Strategy

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

"Ray van Beek" <r_v...@ho...> writes:

> Max,
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>>My feeling is that you're in a minority here - I think that most hosts
>>have upgraded by now.
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>>It's a balance of where our priorities lie - continue with the old code,
>>or work on the new. PHPWeather 2 is really quite a bit better than the 1.x
>>branch.
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> Oh, but I agree that PHPWeather 2 is a lot better (although I
> haven't seen it yet ;-).

By PHP Weather 2, I think (hope) he means the code you'll find in CVS
under the module 'phpweather'. It has some nice things, including much
better support for different databases (or no database at all), more
detailed parsing of the METAR, an improved
internationalization-framework (wow - that was a lot of expensive
words in one sentence :-)

> And of course it is great that it is being developed further....
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>>I'd like to develop it using the tools that are available.
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> . and of course you want to use the tools that are available, but
> does that refrain you from using php3?

PHP4 is faster and better, bla, bla... Seriously, there's a whole
bunch of nice functions for dealings with arrays. I also believe that
PHP4 has better support for objects (which is used in PHP Weather 2)

> I'm a php-newbie, so you have to tell me: Does the use of php3
> 'impossiblelize' (can't find another word ;-) the new and better
> functionality you had in mind for PHP Weather 2?

Well, the code in CVS doesn't run on PHP3 as it is right now - you
should try and have a look at it. I'm not sure why, I only know that
it didn't run last someone tried it on PHP3.
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> If so, then I surrender and say "go ahead, I'll stay behind". No
> hard feelings though. ;-)

OK.=20

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