On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Erik Bernhardson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> There are a few options for handling this but i wanted to see what other
> people think:
>
> * Fork the library, publish it under wikimedia/elastica, and change the
> minimum version to 5.5.x This is a bit of a pain, but accomplishes the goal
> * Fake the platform[1] in mediawiki/vendor composer.json. This is
> sub-optimal because it applies to everything, not just a single dependency.
> I could see us accidentally pulling in code that will not meet our
> requirements.
> * We could use `--ignore-platform-reqs` on the command line, but this has
> the same problem as previously
> * We could hope external developers will answer our pleas for supporting
> EOL php, but i've emailed the elastica dev and they arn't interested in
> supporting EOL PHP.
>

There's also the "bump MediaWiki's requirement to 5.6" option. ;)


-- 
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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