[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12862: Actively encourage PHP 5 upgrades
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#12862: Actively encourage PHP 5 upgrades
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Reporter: dougal | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: 3.1
Component: General | Version: 3.0
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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Comment(by westi):
Replying to [comment:11 aaroncampbell]:
> While I agree that code in core to tell people to upgrade needlessly is
clearly bloat (like telling IE 6 users to switch to Firefox, etc), I think
this differs in two ways:
> 1. It's not arbitrary. Version 3.2 will require PHP 5. For those on
PHP 4 who use auto-update and don't look at the release notes, they're
going to be quite surprised when they try to upgrade to 3.2.
> 1. It's basically temporary code. It only "bloats" a single release.
Any code that's put in now can be removed from trunk as soon as the 3.1
branch is created.
>
> However, I don't know if this needs to be a notice in the admin. We
could just as easily make the upgrader fail out with a message to the user
if they try to upgrade to 3.2 and don't have PHP 5.2+.
>
As far as I know the upgrader all ready does this and has done since
possibly 2.9 as we upped the required mysql version
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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12862#comment:12>
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