On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 4:35 AM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: > According to our docs/internal checks, our min php version is 5.3.3. > However as of 6e283d394f31, MediaWiki doesn't work with php 5.3.3 (You > aren't allowed to implement an interface using an abstract method, on > that version of PHP so you get "Fatal error: Can't inherit abstract > function IDatabase::getType() (previously declared abstract in > DatabaseBase) in git/includes/db/Database.php on line 32"). > > Is it time we up'd our version requirements (And does anyone know if > that would affect lots of third parties?) Or should that change be > reverted?
Some WMF production hosts are still on PHP 5.3.10 so as Tim pointed out last spring [0] we shouldn't drop 5.3 support until after the entirety of the WMF server fleet are all switched over to HHVM or at least a newer version of PHP5. Aaron's patch probably needs to be either reverted or amended to remove the incompatible change. I'd really like us to switch to PHP 5.5 as the minimum supported version sooner rather than later but as I once heard on irc, it would be a bit inconvenient if Wikimedia could not run MediaWiki. [0]: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/436441#436441 -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
