[TYPO3-core] PHP requirement version for TYPO3 4.0

[Michael Scharkow]

Martin Kutschker wrote:

> Hello? This patch is for those who use TYPO3 with Mysql without DBAL who happen to be on a machine with Sybase setting.
> 
> It's a simple thing to change that (beside the short time problem with the PHP version) does no harm.

I'd say every additional code that fixes stuff in some esoteric 
circumstances does some harm to maintainability. That has, of course, 
nothing to do with this actual patch.

> What I don't get is, why now folks who have not said anything before now come up and try to rediscuss everything again.

That's because this thread is somewhat about political issues. I don't 
mind your patch at all, I just wanted to point out that I'd rather 
sacrifice some compatibility to older PHP versions than fix everything 
in TYPO3 code that is really a flaw in PHP.

Just imagine how much code we could saved if e.g. gzip-encoding of 
output worked predictably in PHP, so Kasper wouldn't have had to invent 
that again in TYPO3.

Greetings,
Michael