right, if I understand this, the problem is only with installer, so wouldn't it be better just to make some workaround for older versions of php for installer rather than forcing user to upgrade, while it actually doesn't have effect on mediawiki which is already installed and working?
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
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].