* Ashar Voultoiz <hashar+...@free.fr> [Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:49:47 +0200]: > Nobody seems to care about it :p > > On 08/10/10 23:25, Chad wrote: > > Forwarding to wikitech-l, needs more audience. > > > > I've no love for outdated software, so I'm firmly in > > the +1 camp. > > > > -Chad > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Ashar Voultoiz<hashar+...@free.fr> > > Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:39 PM > > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] about requiring PHP 5.2 > > To: mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > 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. > One of my hosters has FreeBSD and early php5.2 and no native JSON support. I believe it's not guaranteed to have JSON. However, 5.2 of course is better and more stable than 5.1. Dmitriy
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