Maia Mailgaurd

[Gary J. Hayers]

On 26/11/2018 20:11, Janky Jay, III wrote:
> Hello Gary,
> 
> On 11/25/18 6:13 AM, Gary J. Hayers wrote:
>> Hi Janky Jay,
>>
>> Can I ask if you there are any plans to patch Maia so it can run on php70+?
>>
>> Many thanks for the great port.
>>
> 
> 	At the moment, there are a lot of changes happening to the Maia code
> (more changes for Perl as well as support for PHP7.X. I've tried testing
> a few of the latest versions but they're not quite ready yet. As soon as
> they are, I will be updating the port for these versions.
> 
> 	My biggest fear right now is that if I patch the port that currently
> exists to work with PHP7, I'm unsure it would be compatible with PHP5
> users. I don't want to break anything for anyone so I haven't done this
> yet. I'll likely need testers to verify all this before I consider
> changing the current port.
> 
> 	That being said, with just a few minor changes, I have been able to get
> Maia to work with PHP 7.2 without any issues (that I've seen, anyway).
> If you're interested in that, I can provide those changes/patches if
> you'd like to upgrade to PHP7 before the upstream code is ready.

Hi Jay,

Many thanks for the reply, I would happily help test. I have some 
experience with port maintainership so am happy to help in any way I can.

I'd be very interested in the changes/patches.

Again many thanks for the port, it really is great, as is the guide on 
PurpleHat.

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Regards,
Gary J. Hayers
gary at hayers.org

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