* Ashar Voultoiz hashar+wmf@free.fr [Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:49:47 +0200]:
Nobody seems to care about it :p
On 08/10/10 23:25, Chad wrote:
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I've no love for outdated software, so I'm firmly in the +1 camp.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 Voultoizhashar+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.
One of my hosters has FreeBSD and early php5.2 and no native JSON support. I believe it's not guaranteed to have JSON. However, 5.2 of course is better and more stable than 5.1. Dmitriy