On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:51:25AM -0800, Chad wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Trevor Parscal <tpars...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > > PHP 5.4 added a few important features[1], namely traits, shorthand array > > syntax, and function array dereferencing. I've heard that 5.3 is nearing > > end of life. > > > > I propose we drop support for PHP 5.3 soon, if possible. > > > > > I'm in favor of bumping to a 5.4 minimum as well since 5.3 is > approaching its end of life upstream. > > As I pointed out on IRC, the question is how quickly the distros > will follow. Right now the current Ubuntu LTS has us stuck on > 5.3.something. It looks like 14.04 will have 5.5.8 which is nice > but not out until April :)
That is not actually the holdup (or if it is, it's a miscommunication and it shouldn't be). We can backport/build/maintain PHP packages ourselves. We, in fact, run our own 5.3 packages with some minor changes compared to precise's. Last time we were discussing PHP 5.4 it was quite a while ago but I remember hearing that we'd need to do some porting work for our extensions. Plus, we we re having a debate we were having about Suhosin that I don't think ended up anywhere :) However, last I heard, platform engineering is focusing on HHVM now instead, so I'm not sure if it actually makes sense to spend resources to move to PHP 5.4 right now. Faidon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
