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Dawgy · September 07, 2003, 05:11:07 PM

What's going to happen to yabbse.org?

David · September 07, 2003, 05:13:18 PM

Been answered a few times but it will stick around untilt the 1.0 release of SMF. At that point it will become a read only archive.

Dawgy · September 07, 2003, 05:14:28 PM

Does that mean you are going to take down the YaBB SE downloads too?

David · September 07, 2003, 05:17:55 PM

Quote from: Dawgy on September 07, 2003, 05:14:28 PM
Does that mean you are going to take down the YaBB SE downloads too?

It has not yet been discussed.

Mecha Dude · September 08, 2003, 12:37:28 AM

The only reason I think they would keep it around is for compatibility. That is to say if there are issues where SMF cannot be installed on certain server setups, at least you know YaBB SE will work.

But then there is the issue of no more support via updates and security patches.

Nemesis · September 08, 2003, 01:15:18 AM

SMF will be able to install on "almost" all servers that yabbse was able to. Only exception may be older php versions might not be compatiable.

Metho · September 08, 2003, 01:34:42 AM

Quote from: Nemesis on September 08, 2003, 01:15:18 AM
SMF will be able to install on "almost" all servers that yabbse was able to. Only exception may be older php versions might not be compatiable.

In which case the servers need to be updated anyway....

Methonis

[Unknown] · September 08, 2003, 02:03:01 AM

Wrong

. SMF works on even more versions of PHP than YaBB SE did. Chances are if it worked for YaBB SE... it will almost always work with SMF.

Just because the numbers went slightly up.. (4.1.0 and 3.23.4) doesn't mean the actual numbers did - YaBB SE required 4.2.3 because of the mbstring bug, and required 3.23.1 to install anyway. (and required some hacking to work 100% below 3.23.x, although it was possible.)

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Joshua Dickerson · September 08, 2003, 02:11:13 AM

You shouldn't be working with anything below php 4.23 and mysql 4.0 anyway. If your host is, make them switch. If you are, there are many people around that would help you install newer versions (or you could pay someone)

Acf · September 08, 2003, 09:31:43 AM

Is it bad if a host still uses PHP 4.2.2?

David · September 08, 2003, 10:18:54 AM

Quote from: Aliencowfarm on September 08, 2003, 09:31:43 AM
Is it bad if a host still uses PHP 4.2.2?

Yes, 4.3.x has fixed many serious bugs.

Acf · September 08, 2003, 11:28:38 AM

hmmm O o lock and aim on host $:-\$

dschwab9 · September 12, 2003, 01:50:37 AM

Quote from: [Unknown] on September 08, 2003, 02:03:01 AM
YaBB SE required 4.2.3 because of the mbstring bug,

It works fine for me on 4.2.2.

Yeah, I know I need to upgrade, but that's what comes with RedHat 9 and I haven't had time to upgrade it

[Unknown] · September 12, 2003, 03:16:30 AM

Well, 4.2.2 then. (I always think in terms of the highest minor build, because that's supposed to be stable.) The point is that upgrading to SMF will not be difficult since it supports MORE versions not less.

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dschwab9 · September 12, 2003, 03:28:56 AM

Actually, I installed the latest RPM from RedHat, which fixes that bug. Redhat tends to "back patch" on their RPMs. They'll basically take, for example, all the fixes in 4.2.3, apply them to 4.2.2. and release it under the same version with a new release number. Weird, but that's the way they do it.

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