I was assuming that warning wouldn't prevent user from being able to use mw on old php, as Chad explained, in case that it would be impossible to use it there, indeed it would be problem. I think that it should be possible to create some alternative way to install mediawiki for those users (since it affects only installation process). At least some light weight installer which would only update db schema and generated config file.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:18 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Petr Bena wrote:
php is freeware so upgrade shouldn't be problem for anyone
Upgrading is a problem for a lot of people. Shared hosting is problematic in particular.
If there are unavoidable issues (5.3.1), it's a different story, of course.
MZMcBride
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