Last modified: 2010-01-25 05:02:33 UTC
When I was trying to update my wiki by commande-line : php maintenance/update.php I read the following message : MediaWiki 1.16alpha Updater PHP 5.3.1 is not compatible with MediaWiki due to a bug involving reference parameters to __call. Upgrade to PHP 5.3.2, or downgrade to PHP 5.3.0 to fix this. ABORTING (see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50394 for details) BUT my PC doesn't use this php version : PHP 5.2.12-2 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Jan 11 2010 17:30:06) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies with Suhosin v0.9.29, Copyright (c) 2007, by SektionEins GmbH Mediawiki release version : r61149
Since r61072 it checks for the actual bug, not version. The error message might be a confusing for those other affected versions.
r61072 is from presumably where it's failing. That would mean your 5.2.12 is also bugged, as it's not done by version.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirements For the latest version of MediaWiki, PHP version 5.0 or later is required (recommended at least 5.1, PHP versions 5.2.11, 5.2.12 and 5.3.1 are affected by PHP bug 50394 and are discouraged).
At least we output the correct version in r61155
I don't know if it makes much sense to block updating, since 1.15 is equally incompatible. It simply doesn't have the check as the bug was introduced into php after releasing MediaWiki 1.15 release.
But at least it could be helpful if updater warned about possible problems.
I completely agree. It should warn you.
Since there is not actually any reported bug in PHP 5.2.11 or PHP 5.2.12, I am reverting r61204, and the various documentation changes that people have been making on the wiki that implies PHP 5.2.11 doesn't work.
Fixed in r61480. The bug check is now specific to PHP 5.3.x and will not give confusing error messages for PHP 5.2.x.
