Out of the Dark Ages?

  • Okay, seriously guys? When are we going to finally let PHP 5.2 die a proper death and move out of the dark ages here. Time to drop PHP 5.2 support and get with the times, yeah? It’s so bloody frustrating in an attempt to use new features of other libraries that no longer support 5.2, because they’ve decided taking phone calls from 2006, asking for their old, buggy code base back was too much of a pain in the rump to deal with.

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    It’s a contentious topic (oh boy, is it) but I 100% sure that the answer is “When enough users stop using it”.

    I am confident that you can make your own plugin that upon activation checks for 5.4, posts an admin note saying “Please use a supported version of PHP” and deactivates. I do believe that’s permitted in the WordPress plugin repo.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I do believe that’s permitted in the WordPress plugin repo

    Plugin Mod here: It’s permitted and lauded when you do.

    There’s no need to drop support yet. There’s nothing in core WP that requires 5.3 or 5.4 features. Yet.

    Thread Starter Kev Provance

    (@kprovance)

    It’s not wp.org’s guidelines I’m concerned with. It’s Envato’s, and they say if WP supports it, so do I. ??

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