[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #9751: Let's do not rush things for upcomming PHP minimum version PHP 5.x.y

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#9751: Let's do not rush things for upcomming PHP minimum version PHP 5.x.y
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 Reporter:  hakre         |       Owner:  anonymous 
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Unassigned
Component:  General       |     Version:            
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:            
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 As said: let's do not rush this. I just learned by an upgrading ticket for
 a depending library that more and more of the wp codebase will become
 outdated because php 4 support will be dropped on the dependencies.

 so it seems reasonable to me, to make up ones minds about the general
 questions that would encounter when raising the requirements for wordpress
 to PHP 5.x.y.

 even though it might not be within the next 3 to 24 month that this might
 happen we should take care of the wordpress userbase that is truly based
 on php 4 setups. and our userbase has been trained now since many month
 that there is no need to quit a php 4 setup.

 therefore i had the idea to start displaying a calm and nice message
 within the admin if the blog is a php 4 setup. that message can tell the
 user that sometime in the future she might be confronted with the case,
 that her php setup is not supported any longer.

 only because of precautions she should evaluate with all the technical
 partners if it would be possible to have a php 5 based setup in the
 future.

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 if this idea is totally bogus, i have some somehow reltated questions, so
 i put them in here:

 1.) is it known which php minimum version there will be needed sometime
 then?

 2.) will that requirements change be done with a major or a minor version
 change?

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