[FLOW3-general] PHP Min requirements

[Jacob Floyd]

On Monday, May 14, 2012 1:50:19 AM UTC-7, Karsten Dambekalns wrote:
>
> On 10.05.12 22:40, Jacob Floyd wrote: 
> > Any plans on when we'll be raising the minimum requirements for PHP? 
>
> For 1.1, as the issue says :) 
>
 
Ah ha. Then I'll push for a minimum of php 5.3.6, since I use FLOW3 in the 
project that goes on this particular server.

> How do the different versions affect FLOW3? Are they significantly 
> faster? 
> > If you were trying to convince a sys admin to update (ie compile from 
> > source) PHP for use by TYPO3/FLOW3, what would you say? 
>
> Well, it's about some bug fixes and obviously there have been security 
> releases of PHP in the meantime. 
>
> Some distributors backport security fixes, this will always be a problem 
> - it might even be an option for an admin to adjust the checked version 
> in FLOW3. 
>
> But I'd always use a version as recent as possible anyway. And if my 
> distribution did not offer any way other then recompiling, nowadays I'd 
> switch it. :) 
>

Personally, I prefer Gentoo. Then everything is compiled just the way I 
like it. Plus, I don't have to babysit the compilation, I just let USE 
flags enable the features I want. Beautiful.

However, where I work, they've standardized on CentOS - and changing 
distributions is not a battle I care to embark on.
 

> > What about 5.4 - How well does FLOW3 work with 5.4? Are there any 
> > benefits/problems using this version? 
>
> I'll be trying on 5.4 later this week. The tests ran fine some weeks 
> back. So it should be possible to leverage the performance improvements 
> of 5.4 without problems - at least soon :) 


OK, I'll probably hold off on 5.4 then, at least for a while. I'll probably 
wait till my shared host (aka my dev box) gets updated to 5.4 and then push 
it at work.

Thanks for everyone's feedback!