[Mediawiki-l] about requiring PHP 5.2

[David Gerard]

On 28 September 2010 20:39, Ashar Voultoiz <hashar+wmf at free.fr> wrote:

> 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.


5.1 doesn't actually work. I recently tried installing 1.15.4 from the
tarball onto RHEL 5 and it refused to actually work with the system
PHP 5.1. I had to install 5.3.


- d.