On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.orgwrote:
PHP 5.4 added a few important features[1], namely traits, shorthand array syntax, and function array dereferencing. I've heard that 5.3 is nearing end of life.
I propose we drop support for PHP 5.3 soon, if possible.
I'm in favor of bumping to a 5.4 minimum as well since 5.3 is approaching its end of life upstream.
As I pointed out on IRC, the question is how quickly the distros will follow. Right now the current Ubuntu LTS has us stuck on 5.3.something. It looks like 14.04 will have 5.5.8 which is nice but not out until April :)
-Chad