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                            Reason #√-1 I hate PHP

So Smirk has me installing the PayPal module [1] for osCommerce [2] on behalf
of one of our customers. I download the appropriate archive, extract the
files, and start reading on how to install this puppy. That's when I read:

> To install this module, back up your existing installation to a safe place
> and then just copy the included catalog/ directory over your existing
> osCommerce files. This will replace the modified files and add the new
> files. However, if you have modified your osCommerce installation, you will
> need to manually compare the new files with your existing ones, and
> possible manually merge the changes.
>

Oh bloody hell.

This installation of osCommerce I'm installing into has been in production
use for several years now. Of course it has been modified! You can't help but
modify it if you want to change the layouts or the verbiage. There have been
countless modules added over the course of several years. Heck, I hate
touching the thing because it's 88,067 lines of PHP code across 999 source
files in 154 directories.

And this module from Paypal [3]? It's 39,765 lines of code across 199 source
files in 29 directories.

And Paypal expects me to manually compare the new files with the existing
files … heh. Heh. Heh. Heh heh heh. Oh! It is to laugh!

[1] https://www.paypal.com/en_US/html/SolutionsDirectory/sd_plugins-oscommerce.html
[2] http://www.oscommerce.com/
[3] http://www.paypal.com/

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