[Mediawiki-l] Discussion on MediaWiki and PHP5

[Erik Moeller]

On 7/8/06, Sy Ali <sy1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm hosting with service that only has 4, and MediaWiki is the first
> piece of software to (very suddenly!) demand PHP5.  My initial
> impressions were .. disgusted to say the least.

There's nothing that stops you from using legacy versions of
MediaWiki. Brion has been diligent in the past in backporting critical
security fixes. There have been no revolutionary changes since 1.5. Is
there any feature in 1.7 that you desperately need?

Erik