Hello,
In about two months, the first PHP 7 release candidate will be delivered [1] and by then, I think that phpMyAdmin should be able to run on this new version without any problems. At this moment, some tests fail on the latest PHP nightly build because of the libraries phpMyAdmin uses.
Looking through the `libraries` folder I realized that most of those libraries have not been updated for a long time. I consider it a priority to update the broken libraries, but other libraries would benefit from an update as well.
- bfShapeFiles - Causes some tests to fail (uses old-style constructors). Project is no longer maintained. [2] - php-gettext - Causes some tests to fail (uses old-style constructors). Project is no longer maintained. [3] - phpseclib - Works fine. Project is maintained and a new version is available. [4] - tcpdf - Works fine. Project is maintained and a new version is available. [5] - recaptcha - Works fine. Project is maintained and a new version is available. [6]
Those libraries that are not maintained anymore will require forking and very little maintenance to get them working with the latest PHP version.
Another suggestion I have is to use Composer for managing these dependencies, instead of adding them directly to phpMyAdmin's repository. This way, it will be much easier to update those libraries and keep the repository clean.
Best regards, Dan Ungureanu
[1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php7timeline [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/bfshapefiles/ [3] https://launchpad.net/php-gettext/ [4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpseclib/ [5] https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/ [6] https://github.com/google/recaptcha