I am little bit new to this but when you do that would it mean that mw
wouldn't run on that or it would only show a warning to user that their php
is older than required, which user could skip? if there was that
possiblity, I see no problem with that. php is freeware so upgrade
shouldn't be problem for anyone

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> PHP 5.2.6 and earlier have a bugs that prevents us from appending text
> to php://stdout . See [PHP 45303].
>
> We need to open php:// file descriptors in append mode (a) when running
> the web installer or we have a nice error caused by the output buffer
> being reset [BUG 31822] fixed by [r101644].
>
> By bumping our PHP version requirement to 5.2.7 we no more have that
> buffer reset issue. Maintenance scripts will throw a warning though [BUG
> 32325] [BUG 32263].
>
> Debian stable provides PHP 5.3.3.
> I am pretty sure Mac OS X 10.6 provide a PHP version after 5.2.6.
>
> 1.17 bumped requirement to PHP 5.2.3
> Can we bump it again for 1.18 ?
>
>
> References:
> [PHP 45303] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45303
> [BUG 31822] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31822
> [r101644] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/101644
> [BUG 32325] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32325
> [BUG 32263] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32263
>
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> Antoine "hashar" Musso
>
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