[TYPO3-core] RFC #12455: OpenID authentication does not work with PHP 5.3

[Martin Kutschker]

Rupert Germann schrieb:
> Martin Kutschker schrieb:
>> This patch changes a 3rd party library. What is the correct procedure
>> in this case? Simply changing
>> the code (without documenting the fact) makes updates of the lib
>> impossible.
>>
>> Looking at the projects "trac" I see that Dmitry has already pointed
>> out solutions for the PHP 5.3
>> problems. Sadly these don't seem to be too urgent for the developers.
>>
>> Anway this is the ticket for this problem:
>>
>> http://trac.openidenabled.com/trac/ticket/337
> 
> all true, but how does this help us with our current problem? we are
> about to ship TYPO3 4.3 with a openID extension which is broken under
> PHP 5.3. This PHP version is labled as "stable" and it is used in the
> world out there.
> 
> either we write to the docs that openID is broken under 5.3 or we fix
> it. I'm for the latter.

I'm all for fixing. I'm just asking about the procedure how this has to be done. Do we ship a diff
against the original lib? Do we provide a doc file explaining what has been changed and why?

Masi