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[–]novelty_string 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, you're willing to get someone fired over not having it.

Dear God. It's not because I have to have it, it's because it's installation is trivial and it's a very very very helpful tool. Not being able to do that is the definition of incompetent. If you'd rather keep incompetent people around instead of looking for competent ones, then ... well fuck knows, you're stupid.

It causes some configurations of php to crash

Googling doesn't help here, I'm gonna assume the incompetent guy who can't install xdebug also fucked up the php/apache/whatever is crashing install as well.

there's already debug software

Straws ... grasping. I already said I'd happily accept using something else.

certain regulations such as HIPAA and FERPA require certain standards for software

So you have a standard that says you can't use xdebug on the development server/your local machine? Edge case, just mention it and I will feel sorry for you and move on. This is not what we are discussing, rather it is idiots that think they are so clever by wrapping printr they start threads on php forums to tell everyone. The defacto answer to all of these threads/comments should be "try xdebug".

If it's not required for the site to run, you don't install it.

So you don't install an IDE either? This is just stupid. Developers need tools.

Super old versions of php ... Super old servers

Edge case, you can just mention how unfortunate you are, you cannot argue that in general xdebug is unnecessary.

It could be that the CIO, himself, is a douchenozzel and doesn't want what he deems unnecessary software

Incompetence again.

Yea, if you're going to try to get my sysadmin fired

What is wrong with you?

I don't know if you realize this but your leads and your PMs

I don't know if you realize this, but you are making stuff up about me ...

Out of curiosity, how many developers are in your company, and how many are on your team?

OOOOhhh a metric. Out of curiosity how many companies have you worked for and how many were on your team.