[wp-hackers] php -v

[Bryan Petty]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Thomas Scholz <info at toscho.de> wrote:
> Basic example: some API providers (Dropbox, Amazon and so on) offer PHP
> classes to access their APIs. Very comfortable, because as a plugin
> developer, you don't have to reinvent the wheel, and these tools are usually
> better tested than a single developer could do. But if they require at least
> PHP 5.3, you cannot use them.
> The same applies to almost all existing frameworks and libraries: we cannot
> use that code, because so many users are still on 5.2, and we don't want to
> lose those.

None of that has anything to do with WordPress still supporting 5.2.
He was right, that doesn't mean you can't require 5.3+ in your plugins
that require those 5.3+ libraries, several plugins on WordPress.org
do.

Regards,
Bryan Petty