On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Ubuntu Server LTS versions have 5 years of support, so 12.04 will not > be EOL until April of 2017. PHP 5.3 will be EOL in July of 2014. I'm > sure that 3 year difference will be a major pain point for the Ubuntu > security team. > OK, so Ubuntu Server LTS will EOL in April 2017. Additionally, MediaWiki 1.23 LTS (our next release) is planned to EOL in May 2017. With that in mind, I think it's fair to say that once 1.23 is released we will have the opportunity to increase our PHP requirement. I strongly recommend we do so. A list of nice things about 5.4 that we'd definitely use: - Array literals - $this support in closures - Class member access based on expression - Class member access after instantiation - Function return value array dereferencing - The JsonSerializable interface - Improved parse_url() behavior Of course there is traits as well, but that's more of an actual new feature, and it will be a while before MediaWiki starts using traits everywhere. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
