Re: [Mediawiki-l] 1.18 PHP version requirement

Hello, PHP 5.2.6 and earlier have a bugs that prevents us from appending text to php://stdout . See [PHP 45303]. We need to open php:// file descriptors in append mode (a) when running the web installer or we have a nice error caused by the output buffer being reset [BUG 31822] fixed by [r101644]. By bumping our PHP version requirement to 5.2.7 we no more have that buffer reset issue. Maintenance scripts will throw a warning though [BUG 32325] [BUG 32263]. Debian stable provides PHP 5.3.3. I am pretty sure Mac OS X 10.6 provide a PHP version after 5.2.6. 1.17 bumped requirement to PHP 5.2.3 Can we bump it again for 1.18 ? References: [PHP 45303] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45303 [BUG 31822] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31822 [r101644] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/101644 [BUG 32325] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32325 [BUG 32263] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32263