[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33381: Strategize the updating of minimum PHP version.

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#33381: Strategize the updating of minimum PHP version.
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 Reporter:  alexander.rohmann                    |       Owner:  jorbin
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Awaiting
Component:  General                              |  Review
 Severity:  normal                               |     Version:
 Keywords:  needs-codex dev-feedback 2nd-        |  Resolution:
  opinion                                        |     Focuses:
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Comment (by pcarvalho):

 Replying to [comment:101 johnbillion]:
 > Replying to [comment:100 pcarvalho]:
 > > What would happen to them? nothing.
 > The "nothing" here is significant. Increasing the minimum required
 version of PHP would potentially result in hundreds of thousands of sites
 being "orphaned" on old versions of WordPress,

 sorry to say this, but that's the actual reality. not sure about the
 numbers, but there's a good bunch of wordpress sites lost in the wild with
 no updates. Pandering to these sleeping beauties makes no sense to me. Its
 to the "updated wordpress+old php" that need attention.



 > and the project would be left with a security fix back-compat nightmare
 which is worse than it is now (security fixes are currently backported to
 3.7 when appropriate and it's becoming more difficult with every new
 release).

 how is dropping support a nightmare compared doing the backports to this
 6/3/2 year old dead version of php? dropping support is to stop doing the
 fixes beyond 3.7 and version X for php.

 @fightthecurrent said it nicely: EOL is A-OK.

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