[geeklog-devel] The road ahead - post 1.5.0

[Dirk Haun]

Blaine Lang wrote:

>- I also would like to see us decide that PHP5 and possibly MySQL 4+ are 
>the minimal requirements and evolve our code to use a more PHP5 OO design.

We owe our users a bugfixed 1.5.0 that still works on PHP 4 (I did
actually see someone mentioning they were on PHP 4.1.2 or something
equally ancient in the forums just today or yesterday). But for 1.5.1
and later it doesn't make sense any more to insist on compatibility with
PHP 4.

Not sure where to draw the line with MySQL. Official support for MySQL
3.23 ended quite a while ago. What does MySQL 4 buy us over 3.23? What
about 4.1?


>- Agree that javascript is here to stay :) and start to actively use 
>AJAX in our Admin and User core components.

Just the other day I saved someone's day when I pointed out that he
could switch off JavaScript for "My Account" and it would still work.
I'm a bit miffed, actually, that the Configuration requires JavaScript
for - to me at least - no obvious reason. Didn't notice it in time, so I
didn't say anything.

Nothing wrong with jazzing things up a bit (or a lot). But the basic,
minimal functionality should still work without JS. Yeah, I'm old-
fashioned ...


>- Review CTL for inclusion,  as Vinny noted and has my vote as well

Did anyone ever do some performance tests with this thing? How does it
help on small sites vs. large sites (aka does it scale)?

Also, from what I understand, it's translating the templates to PHP.
What about security?


>- Fresh new theme/look ( I believe we had a nice offer a few months ago 
>and hope offer is still available)

<http://eight.pairlist.net/pipermail/geeklog-devel/2007-December/002832.html>

Haven't heard anything since.

bye, Dirk


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