There does not seem to have been a decision made here - is there even a
process for making a decision like this?

We already have some extension code in production that requires PHP >= 5.3 (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/111691). I assume
that's not the case for core, but it seems a slippery road for us to go
down allowing code that requires PHP 5.3 into production if we intend to
support PHP >= 5.2.

While we await some sort of decision about this, what is the appropriate
thing to do when we see PHP code that's only compatible with PHP >= 5.3 in
code review? I went ahead and tagged a couple of revisions I saw making use
of late static bindings with 'php5.3' and left them as 'new' pending some
sort of decision/guidance.

Arthur

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 23/02/12 22:23, Chad wrote:
> >> Under the hood performance improvements
> >> Optional garbage collection for cyclic references
> >
> > This is my favorite part of 5.3 <3
> >
> > -Chad
>
> You don't need 5.2 incompatible code for that.
>
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