Thomas Dalton wrote:
Double-colons
only work since 5.2.3, which means they may work during
development, but they will fail on some Wikimedia servers and on many
external installations.
Does that mean the Wikimedia servers are not all running identical
configurations? That must be a nightmare...
Yes, there are many different configurations. Yes, it is a nightmare. We
thought switching to Ubuntu would make it better, but a year on, our
Ubuntu servers still can't do a number of critical tasks, and we now have
not only our ancient FC 3 and 4 servers, essentially unmaintained in the
vain hope that their existence is temporary, in addition to two different
versions of Ubuntu (7.04 and 8.04).
We're running PHP 5.2.5 on the FC apaches, from a source install, and a
mixture of 5.2.1 and 5.2.5 on the Ubuntu apaches, from the distro
packages. Some search and miscellaneous servers are still running PHP 5.1.x.
-- Tim Starling