| Smalyshev added a comment. |
Another thought about docker and similar technologies. PHP applications - and Mediawiki in particular - can be used on stacks way beyond Linux. I've seen PHP run on HP-UX, AIX, in mainframe containers, other weird setups. As long as our base requirement remains more or less only "PHP" (database is separable, so it's not a big issue), we may not be officially supporting this diverse category but we are serving them. There's a long tail of "weird" cases that our relatively low requirement footprint enables. If we ever changed it to "you need to run docker now" that would cut off some the "long" part of this long tail - all those weird cases that nobody would bother to support explicitly but that "just work" because requirements are low. Raising requirements has costs, we should be always mindful of it.
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