[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33758: Bump Recommended PHP version

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#33758: Bump Recommended PHP version
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 Reporter:  pento           |       Owner:  pento
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  4.4
Component:  General         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:  docs
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Comment (by pento):

 I think the risk of confusion is small enough that we can leave it as is
 in the 4.3 branch. I also don't think this is severe enough to be changing
 strings in a stable branch.

 I'm inclined to look at `about/requirements` as reflecting the current
 best practices, which is not necessarily tied to a specific version of
 WordPress. 4.3 and trunk already run on PHP 7, but we won't be updating
 their readme's or `about/requirements` to recommend PHP 7 until it's been
 out for a while. When we do update to recommend PHP 7, we'll be
 comfortable that several major versions work on it, so we don't need to
 worry about people running a more recent version of PHP than their
 WordPress install supports.

 That said, if we do have instances of folks being confused by the
 differing recommendations, I have no problem with revisiting this and
 seeing if we can make things clearer.

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