[ciapug] PHP 6

[Tim Perdue]

Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> Wow.. A complete rewrite? So...was it punishing?  Did you make any
> architectural changes during the rewrite? How long did it take?
> 
> I've been considering a rewrite of NIFCAP on PHP 5 in about a year or
> so. It just makes me squeemish.
> 
> On a good note, the upgrade to Mysql 4.x is gonna happen next month. In
> testing there have been *no* issues. As soon as the new server gets here
> it'll be up and running.

Yeah, it was a total, 100% architectural rethink of gforge. 85,000 lines 
of code in 5 months. The old schema had something like 169 tables, and 
the new one has 81. It's not because we dropped a huge amount of 
functionality, it's because we merged and consolidated so many features 
that were duplicated all over the place.

Tim