Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!news2.arglkargh.de!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Message-ID: <2847576.nF5Vn3TYkl@PointedEars.de> From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:09:26 +0200 User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Face: %i>XG-yXR'\"2P/C_aO%~;2o~?g0pPKmbOw^=NT`tprDEf++D.m7"}HW6.#=U:?2GGctkL,f89@H46O$ASoW&?s}.k+&. <50492975$0$287$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <504dc436$0$289$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <504ef8a0$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4851647.shyL2iaLbH@PointedEars.de> Followup-To: comp.lang.php MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Sep 2012 12:09:27 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 21b73c3b.newsspool3.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=j:amb;H3IjjeoCI^f\Y]EaMcF=Q^Z^V3h4Fo<]lROoRa8kF On 9/11/2012 7:16 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> Jonathan Stein wrote: >>> On 10-09-2012 13:43, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>>> To not fix them is the ultimate in stupidity. >>> Thank you for your insightful analysis. Could you also tell me which new >>> projects, we should drop to get resources to maintain these old sites? >> >> If the rest of the code is not complete junk, getting rid of *those* >> warnings requires nothing more than a few regex search-and-replace >> operations; BTDT. Which can be done in PHP of course, but there are >> specialized tools (any decent text editor can do that). Maybe someone >> even has written a PHP 5.2 to 5.3 converter already. And if not, why >> don't you write one, and save everyone your whining here? > > Blindly changing code with search and replace is a major invitation for > trouble! But then it's exactly what I would expect YOU would do. You are projecting. It would _not_ be done *blindly*. PointedEars -- Prototype.js was written by people who don't know javascript for people who don't know javascript. People who don't know javascript are not the best source of advice on designing systems that use javascript. -- Richard Cornford, cljs,