Dropping PHP 5.5 support #2178
Dropping PHP 5.5 support #2178
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👍 I'm surprised we hadn't already done this! |
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@akrabat we were talking about 4.x being 7.x ... |
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| It's recommended that you use [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) to install Slim. | |||
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I guess this is a mistake? Slim 4 is still work in progress.
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I guess this is a mistake? Slim 4 is still work in progress.
This is a PR against 4.x, so it will be correct. There's an argument we should alias dev-4.x to 4.0 though.
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Oh I totally missed the target branch. Then @geggleto brings a good point. There were discussions for php 7.*
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7+ hasn't been agreed. Everyone agrees on dropping 5.5 though.
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@ivandokov There is an issue discussing language versions here: #2175. So far, the only agreement is that support for PHP 5.5 should be dropped, hence the pull request. But I agree it would be good to support PHP 7 only in the new version.
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Possibly too late to the party, but Google App Engine Standard Environment only supports PHP 5.5.34. Would you guys reconsider 5.5 support? |
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@garnold I can't speak for the project's core maintainers, but much of the recent discussion has been as to whether to support PHP 5.6 or just put the minimum version to PHP 7.0, so I'm afraid it seems unlikely for Slim 4. Please note that the project's core team, when I've spoken to them, have seemed very committed to supporting Slim 3 long-term, and it will remain an excellent choice of micro-framework after Slim 4 is released later this year. PHP 5.5 critical security support died in the middle of last year, so I'm surprised to learn Google Cloud haven't upgraded yet. I am even now planning a miffed tweet. |
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@garnold it seems Google App Engine Flexible Environment supports PHP 5.6+, you might want to switch over to that as @Sam-Burns has said, PHP 5.5 is no longer supported by the PHP core team at all. |
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@Sam-Burns @silentworks Thanks guys! I figured that would be the answer. Trouble is according to Google, GAE SE is not going away anytime soon, yet they have no (public) plans to support 5.6/7.0 on GAE SE. |
Per discussion in #2175 , this PR explicitly drops PHP 5.5 support in the
composer.jsonfile. It also removes a build, and updates the docs.