COmanage Developers List

[Scott Koranda <>]

Hi,

> As a side effect of the great laptop crash of last month, my development
> environment is now using PHP 7. 

Just out of curiosity, which OS are you using for development?

> It turns out there are some minor changes
> required for COmanage, mostly addressing deprecations.
> 
> My proposed strategy is to start support for PHP 7 beginning with COmanage
> v1.1.0. A minor complication is that it will be difficult for me to do work
> on the 1.0.x (hotfix) branch, and so my plan will be to only commit
> deployment–critical patches to that branch. Of course if you're still using
> PHP 5.x you can continue to make commits to the hotfix branch.
> 
> As a side note, the latest supported version of PHP is 5.6. We previously
> agreed that v5.4 would be the minimum COmanage supported version as of
> v1.1.0, and I think we can continue with that strategy while continuing to
> recommend that deployers upgrade to later versions of PHP.

Since Debian 7 and CentOS 6 are still popular for
deployers and they have PHP 5.4 either by default (Debian) or
available from a common repository (CentOS) I think we should
continue to try and support 5.4 for now.

Thanks,

Scott