My vote is for the PHP version the majority of stable / LTS OS's support by default.
Regards On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Artur Bodera <abod...@gmail.com> wrote: > Voting no. > > As much as I'd love to bump it even higher (*ekhem* borked DateTime > *ekhem*) it will probably confuse the hell out of user base. We've had this > discussion several times on different occasions (on ml, irc, even some > stuff on wiki). > > We'll have to live with 5.3.3 until ZF3. With ZF3 we'll have to live with > 5.4.X (which will probably be aligned with most popular revision per linux > distros) and we'll probably have similar discussions in the future ... and > for the sake of consistency, my answer will then also probably be "no". > > With love :-) > > Art. > > > -- > abod...@gmail.com > +48 695 600 936 > http://thinkscape.pro > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Stewart Lord <sl...@perforce.com> wrote: > >> My vote is 'no' because (as far as I know) RHEL 6 is currently at 5.3.3 >> and we have customers on that distro. This would mean we are stuck on older >> ZF2 at least for a while. Not a huge deal really, but that's my vote FWIW :) >> >> I also note that Symfony2 is at 5.3.3. >> >> Stew >> >> >> >> On 2013-11-05 11:34 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: >> >>> Hey, all -- >>> >>> We're running into a few situations where bumping the minimum required >>> PHP version for ZF2 would be useful; in fact, there's at least one >>> situation where staying with 5.3.3 actually prevents progress on a few >>> issues. >>> >>> The specific issue we have is that, until 5.3.9, PHP did not allow the >>> following: >>> >>> interface Foo >>> { >>> public function send(); >>> } >>> >>> interface Bar >>> { >>> public function send(); >>> } >>> >>> class FooBar implements Foo, Bar >>> { >>> public function send() >>> { >>> // do something >>> } >>> } >>> >>> Essentially, implementing multiple interfaces that define the same >>> method, using the same signature. >>> Prior to 5.3.9, this raises an E_FATAL. From 5.3.9 forward, it works. >>> >>> Having this would allow us to fix a situation with the way translation >>> works across components; not having it means we're stuck with some of >>> those problems. >>> >>> There are other issues as well: ArrayObject has had a lively history >>> of malfunctioning with 5.3 and 5.4, and there are some odd behaviors >>> in the object model as well that have been corrected starting in 5.3.7 >>> and up. >>> >>> Considering PHP 5.3 has already reached end of life status >>> (http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-07-11-1), upping the minimum >>> version seems like "a good idea." >>> >>> My question, then is: >>> >>> - Should we up the minimum required PHP version for ZF2? >>> - If your answer was "no", why not? >>> - If your answer was "yes", what version should become the next >>> minimum supported PHP version? Why? >>> >>> NOTE: we are not announcing that we will up the minimum required >>> version at this time; I'm soliciting feedback so we can make a >>> decision. >>> >>> Thanks in advance! >>> >>> >> >
