On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hey, > > I'm wondering if there are any concrete plans for dropping PHP 5.2.x > support > in MediaWiki. Support for these versions of PHP has been discontinued by > the > PHP people a few months back, and it'll take another while before the next > MediaWiki version (1.20) hits it's release anyway. So my vote goes for > dropping support for pre 5.3 in MW 1.20, if not already planned. Then we > can > finally make use of the new things introduced in 5.3, which in some cases > are really useful and right now a complete pain to implement. > > Any objections or thoughts on this? > Our current deployment plan is to use the HipHop compiler in production for 1.19 (maybe?) and 1.20 (definitely). HipHop currently has no support for PHP 5.3-only features such as lambda functions. So... we'll probably want to monitor that situation. :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
