Gregory Szorc wrote:
Thank you for requiring PHP 5. Hopefully this will some way help convince the lethargic hosting providers to upgrade. PHP 5 will be two years old next Thursday. Yeesh.
Next you'll be asking us to upgrade our home computers off Windows 98! ;)
Also, Brion, check out http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFMLGEN/mail/1355. Basically, 'require_once' isn't as fast as 'require'. Also, given the extreme amount of 'require' statements in MW and the fact that it is now PHP 5, have you ever thought of using the __autoload() function? See http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.autoload.php
As it happens, MediaWiki 1.7 uses autoloading extensively for just this reason.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)