[dev] Reasonable PHP version requirements

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:

> Am 27.11.2019 um 09:04 schrieb Remi Collet:
>> Le 26/11/2019 à 21:10, Patrice Levesque a écrit :
>>
>>> Care must be taken with “active upstream support”; most GNU/Linux
>>> distributions support older PHP releases for years after upstream has
>>> lost interest:
>>> - RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 has PHP 5.3, EOL in 2020/11
>>> - RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 has PHP 5.4, EOL in 2024/06
>> RHEL-7 also have in RHSCL alternative versions 7.2 and soon 7.3
>> (already part of RHSCL 3.4 Beta)
>>
>> Had 7.0 and 7.1, but both are now EOL
>> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhscl/
>>
>>
>>> - (Latest CentOS (8) was released 2019/09 with PHP 7.2)
>> RHEL 8.0 had 7.2
>> RHEL 8.1 have 7.2 or 7.3
>>
>> CentOS is a bit behind, and 8.1 should be released soon.
>>
>> Fedora 29 have 7.2 and is now EOL
>> Fedora 30 and 31 have 7.3
>> Fedora 32 will have 7.4
>>
>>
>>
>> Remi
>
> To join in:
>
> opensuse is currently dropping php5-* packages from its
> server:php:applications repo.
>
> https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/753018

Historically we didn't set the bar higher than what the long-running,  
lagging-behind distributions (I'm looking at you RHEL) supported in  
their latest releases. With PHP development gaining speed, and with  
distributions keeping up, I think we should set the bar lower either.  
So 7.2 looks like a good candidate to me.

Thanks to everyone in this thread for collecting the version  
information! I wish there was something like https://caniuse.com/ for  
distribution packages.

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
https://www.horde.org/