Re: [Tiki-devel] Tiki trunk/master is switching today to PHP 8.1 minimum, in preparation for Tiki 26.0

Marc Laporte <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.tiki.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This is happening next week:
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/2711

The whole GlitchTip-Tiki team (which contributed about 200 bug fixes in last few weeks) will now shift its focus to PHP 8.1:
https://dev.tiki.org/Using-GlitchTip-as-part-of-the-Tiki-development-process

Please everyone switch your trunk/master systems to PHP 8.1 and be ready to update frequently because there will be a lot of commits coming 

Thank you and best regards,

Marc


On Fri, 12 May 2023 15:15:29 -0400 [email protected], Tiki developers [email protected] said

> Hello,
> 
> As discussed in the chatroom, the PHP version support is increasingly a
> concern.
> https://matrix.to/#/!SLEgqpTNTlGYAhzNvK:gitter.im/$9_JHuXClV_DzxsyfoRB1i9iLLMcs-NJcPWUnyejOyNo?via=matrix.org&via=gitter.im&via=coeus.ca
> 
> After analysis, the best (less bad) option is to move to PHP 8.1 in trunk
> now, and sprint to fix all remaining PHP8 issues before the release of 26.0
> (ideally all before branching)
> 
> Why not PHP 8.0? Extra work, and many important dependencies now require PHP
> 8.1 (if we want to leverage most modern code)
> 
> Why not keep 7.4 and add 8.1? This is doable but more work. And it prevents
> us from fully taking advantage of PHP8  The time we save by testing and
> fixing 7.4 is better invested in fixing more things in 8.1.
> 
> What about PHP 8.2? We'll add support for Tiki 27LTS (and maintain 8.1)
> 
> I updated:
> https://doc.tiki.org/PHP8
> https://doc.tiki.org/Requirements
> 
> So it will be a bumpy period, but it is the way to go. There could be some
> lesser used features that are not functional in Tiki 26.0 because of an
> abandoned dependency. We'll work on these for 26.1 and 26.2.
> 
> Thank you Benoit Grégoire for your energy and expertise here. Thank you
> SoftStart for all the previous work on PHP8 support. Thank you to the
> EvoluData dev team for all the recent work on PHP8, including some nasty hard
> crashes. The coming weeks will be bumpy and I am counting on you all.
> 
> And special thanks to the PHP community for all the innovation. The future is
> bright!
> https://thephp.foundation/
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Marc

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