[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23880: Minimum PHP version in Plugins

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#23880: Minimum PHP version in Plugins
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 Reporter:  TJNowell         |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Plugins          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by alexander.rohmann):

 How much time has been wasted allowing PHP EOL to be open to
 interpretation?

 It doesn't matter who you are (host, open source project, etc.), if you
 are using PHP you should be able to respect their release cycles. PHP has
 people working hard to provide LTS, and plan how things evolve. The "PHP
 community" at large seems to have no respect for that. What right do we
 have to disregard this, and be heavily dependent on PHP?

 When all this goes down here's the stance I'd like to see WordPress take:

 '''WordPress will only run on PHP versions found here: http://php.net
 /supported-versions.php'''

 That's how it should be, and that would solve all these problems going
 forward.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23880#comment:55>
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