[TYPO3-core] System and browser requirements

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 5-5-2014 0:05, Benjamin Mack wrote:
> Next TYPO3 CMS release
>
> * PHP: 5.4 - 5.5 / 5.6
> * MySQL: 5.5 - 5.6 (although 5.1 will probably still work)

For this we usually look at what is distributed by the most used 
OS/distributions. We've been sticking to PHP 5.3 with 6.x because some 
Linux distros had LTS versions which still shipped those version 
numbers. Seems that one LTS product will form the limiting factor for 
another LTS product ;-)

> * Browsers: IE9+, other modern desktop browsers (latest versions as they
> have silent upgrades), maybe even going mobile, but that depends on our
> progress.

IE8 came with Windows Vista which is supported until 11-4-2017. If the 
next LTS is published around that date we could drop IE8 support too. 
I'm not sure which IE was shipped with Windows Server 2008, but the 
extended support for that ends 14-1-2020.

> MySQL
>   * We still treat MySQL (also because of the SQL ANSI standard) as it
> should be with 3.23 or 4.0, but this area could be really interesting
> once we identify how we could use stored procedures at al in a unified
> way across all database systems. This could be a huge performance
> improvement (think of all the tree traversing stuff in BE and FE). The
> introduction of foreign keys might be helpful as well.

This largely depends on the features that are available in the DBMS we 
support. It would be a lot easier if we can use a different way to build 
queries ( = no raw queries) that would make life for a DBAL system 
(possibly Doctrine) a lot easier.

-- 
Jigal van Hemert
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