[phpMyAdmin Developers] require a specific PHP minor version?

[Michal Čihař]

Dne Mon, 07 Sep 2015 10:29:42 -0400
Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> napsal(a):

> Le 2015-09-07 08:38, Michal Čihař a écrit :
> > Dne Mon, 07 Sep 2015 08:10:41 -0400
> > Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> napsal(a):
> > 
> >> Le 2015-09-07 03:40, Michal Čihař a écrit :
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> Dne Sun, 06 Sep 2015 08:27:19 -0400 Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info>
> >>> napsal(a):
> >>>
> >>>> Due to [0] should we * require a minimum PHP version of 5.3.27 in
> >>>> libraries/common.inc.php for phpMyAdmin 4.4.15?
> >>>>
> >>>> * mention this requirement in our doc?
> >>>>
> >>>> * mention it on the downloads page?
> >>>
> >>> Looking at the comments, it might be actually fixed already in
> >>> 5.3.7. Also it can quite easily happen that Redhat will backport the
> >>> fix to their version, so the strict version check doesn't seem like a
> >>> good solution.
> >>
> >> We could try to find out the exact PHP version. My point is that we
> >> should not just require a minimum version of PHP 5.3, as this is not
> >> true. It affects not just Redhat users but all users having PHP between
> >> 5.3.0 and, say, 5.3.7.
> > 
> > But looking at version string is still bad idea here - if Redhat will
> > fix this, their version will be still called 5.3.3, it will just have
> > applied patch which fixes this particular issue.
> 
> How about just mentioning it just on the downloads page and the doc then?

Sounds good enough.

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	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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