[Mediawiki-l] about requiring PHP 5.2

[Ashar Voultoiz]

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.

cheers,

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Ashar Voultoiz