On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/commits/master/src/system/gen/php/classes/closure.cpp :-) -- Andrew Garrett Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
