PHP 5.4 & 5.5 -support.
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Wouldn't it make sense to support 5.4 as the 2.8 -branch of framework-bundle
( https://github.com/symfony/framework-bundle/blob/2.8/composer.json ) supports >=5.3.9? As does Symfony 2.8. Doctrine 2.5 supports >5.4, so why require php 5.6, when some servers might still be on 5.4?
This is a very opinionated question. The counter argument is:
Would it make sense to support a PHP version that is not officially supported? Why should we bother if not event the core team bothers?
Do you have a reson why you need PHP 5.4 support?
The long term support version of symfony supports >=5.3.9 http://symfony.com/doc/2.8/reference/requirements.html
Centos 7 (It's quite popular) only comes with 5.4.
As a bundle we should always consider whether BC compatibility does not stale development of new features, like supporting the Symfony 3.0 branch. Some of the features, like the use of a FQCN to define form types, are a hard BC break that would require the maintainers of all bundles to bump their php requirement.
@Nyholm think we should at least update the 1.x branch to a174734 and release the latest stable tag of that (eg 1.1.0?). You see any possible bugs between March 9 (when v1.0.7 was released) and that commit I mentioned?
@Nyholm can we agree on bumping php to ^5.5.9 for version 2 of this bundle, and follow Symfony 3 on that? Also concerning the PHP supported versions for this: http://php.net/supported-versions.php
And after that I think we can release beta2 for now.
Sure. Lets!
2.0.0-beta2 has been released, I've updated UPGRADE.md accordingly.