composer/package-versions-deprecated

PHP ^5.3.2 compatible version?

andrerom opened this issue · 2 comments

As Composer 2.x aims to support PHP 5.3 and higher, there needs to be a version of this package that support those PHP ^5.3.2 versions as well if we want reach those users.

Current code here is requiring "php": "^7".

No version of Ocramius/PackageVersions ever supported PHP < 7.
Since this package aims to "replace" it, there's no point IMHO to this request: projects that want to support PHP 5.3 and also want to get access to versions info should use the Composer\InstalledVersions class provided by Composer 2 instead.

It seems you are correct ;)
(it was provided as dev-master for older PHP versions for a while, but it seems we never used that on the branches we have that needs to support PHP 5.6 still)