On 08/07/06, Sy Ali sy1234@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/8/06, Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/8/06, Sy Ali sy1234@gmail.com wrote:
I'm hosting with service that only has 4, and MediaWiki is the first piece of software to (very suddenly!) demand PHP5. My initial impressions were .. disgusted to say the least.
There's nothing that stops you from using legacy versions of MediaWiki. Brion has been diligent in the past in backporting critical security fixes. There have been no revolutionary changes since 1.5. Is there any feature in 1.7 that you desperately need?
Nothing jumps to mind, but there is a long list of changes to look through. Presumably other changes will sneak in over the next year or so.. when official support is expected to start to drop off.
I don't see what the big issue is, to be honest. MediaWiki 1.7 requires PHP 5, it's as simple as that. Use it or don't; no-one here is forcing you. We're simply saying, "hey, here's another release of the stuff we use to run Wikipedia."
I sympathise with those who don't have the ability, voluntarily or otherwise, to upgrade to a modern version of PHP, but those problems aren't our fault any more than they are yours. I don't see why people have to get so uppity about it; we stated for months that this version required a new version of PHP. It's marked all over the place as clearly as possible.
If you want the functionality that 1.7 provides, then you will have to upgrade.
Rob Church