Hello,
Looking at INSTALL it seems we are still supporting PHP version 5.1 which is 5 years old in a couple of weeks. This is getting old and prevents developers from using some new features.
Ideally we could raise it to 5.3 to get Namespace support, closures but that might be to early since most webhost probably still use 5.2.x.
Would it be possible to consider raising the requirement to at least 5.2.0 ? This would give us native JSON support and most probably the filter extension enabled by default. The later can be used to speed up the input validation.
cheers,
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On 28-Sep-10 15:39, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
Would it be possible to consider raising the requirement to at least 5.2.0 ? This would give us native JSON support and most probably the filter extension enabled by default. The later can be used to speed up the input validation.
This brings up an interesting point. I recently updated to 1.17 and had a hell of a time, because apparently the version of PHP in my host's ssh was still using 5.0.4. I couldn't run any of the maintenance scripts and I had to fully reinstall using the web interface (which was running 5.2.x). - -- Curulan Angelicos Leader, Clan Titan OpenPG KeyID: 0x7ACEBA53
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Forwarding to wikitech-l, needs more audience.
I've no love for outdated software, so I'm firmly in the +1 camp.
-Chad
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ashar Voultoiz hashar+wmf@free.fr Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:39 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] about requiring PHP 5.2 To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hello,
Looking at INSTALL it seems we are still supporting PHP version 5.1 which is 5 years old in a couple of weeks. This is getting old and prevents developers from using some new features.
Ideally we could raise it to 5.3 to get Namespace support, closures but that might be to early since most webhost probably still use 5.2.x.
Would it be possible to consider raising the requirement to at least 5.2.0 ? This would give us native JSON support and most probably the filter extension enabled by default. The later can be used to speed up the input validation.
cheers,
-- Ashar Voultoiz
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On 28 September 2010 20:39, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Looking at INSTALL it seems we are still supporting PHP version 5.1 which is 5 years old in a couple of weeks. This is getting old and prevents developers from using some new features.
5.1 doesn't actually work. I recently tried installing 1.15.4 from the tarball onto RHEL 5 and it refused to actually work with the system PHP 5.1. I had to install 5.3.
- d.
We use PHP 5.1.6 (standard with CentOS) and MW 1.16 just fine. DanB
-----Original Message----- 5.1 doesn't actually work. I recently tried installing 1.15.4 from the tarball onto RHEL 5 and it refused to actually work with the system PHP 5.1. I had to install 5.3.
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