Hi Tom,
> So, CentOS-5 is out.
> How can one help the development/upgrade of BlueQuartz to Apache-2.2
> and PHP5?
I already looked at it over the weekend. I took a development BQ box and
forcefully upgraded it to CentOS-5 to see what it would break.
****** To each and anyone: Don't do that on a production box!!!! *********
The newer Apache 2.2 no longer has the mod_cband module and a couple of other
modules. So during startup AdmServ complains six days to Sunday about missing
modules. Commenting them out one by one I eventually came to the mod_cband
module, which we use for bandwith management. That particular module is
apparently missing in Apache 2.2 and we'll have to manually supply it again -
if it still builds under Apache 2.2.
Likewise, a couple of Apache related handlers and constructors may need minor
tweaks and adjustments to cope with some Apache 2.2 related changes in config
files.
Now on to the heart and soul of BlueQuartz:
CentOS-5 comes with PHP-5.1.6, so the i18n PHP module must be ported to PHP5.
Without that Sausalito won't run, which will be the biggest show-stopper.
The next and certainly saddest point are the many API changes between PHP4 and
PHP5. This forces us to go through a *lot* of old code in each and
any "base-" package of the GUI to change old syntax to the new syntax.
Messing with "Register Globals" may serve as a short lived work around to
cope with some of the fallout, but sooner or later this will get deprecated.
So we might as well do it right now and save us some headache later on.
All in all this ain't easy and can't be done on the fly.
The starting point would of course be porting i18n to PHP5 to get CCE back up
and then we have to take it from there and fix all broken API calls in the
base packages.
Help is certainly welcome.
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With best regards,
Michael Stauber
http://www.solarspeed.net