https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31103
--- Comment #6 from Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> 2011-09-22 19:23:20 UTC --- If you'd be interested in writing up your notes on a page on mediawiki.org, please feel free -- it's a wiki and should allow you to get started right away. This will also get the pages indexed for search on mediawiki.org (local search) and via google etc searches on a relevant domain. But do be aware that the MediaWiki dev community doesn't traditionally put a lot of effort into maintenance of old releases beyond a couple versions of security patch releases. You'll probably find a combination of: * old bugs that are fixed in newer versions of MediaWiki * incompatibilities between old MediaWiki code and newer versions of other packages like PHP and MySQL For instance reference-related (&$foo) issues are common on newer versions of PHP, because PHP keeps changing the rules on what's an acceptable use of references. Due to historic usages from the PHP 4 era, a lot of extension hooks are common places to see this because references got used in places where, under PHP 5, they don't need to be (and now sometimes don't work). That looks like the sort of thing you're running into up above. Workarounds are basically: 1) Don't run the old versions if you can help it! 2) If you must run an old version of MediaWiki, you can either track down all those bug fixes (and still be open to whatever other bugs and security problems there are in the system)... or 3) you can downgrade the other bits of your system to match it in which case it'll more likely run... but you may be vulnerable to bugs and security problems in those other packages as well. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
