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Bug 2377 - README, INSTALL, RELEASE-NOTES : AMP prerequisite information is inconsistent
README, INSTALL, RELEASE-NOTES : AMP prerequisite information is inconsistent
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Documentation (Other open bugs)
1.3.x
All All
: Normal normal with 2 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Depends on: 1977
Blocks: documentation
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Reported: 2005-06-10 21:05 UTC by Zigger
Modified: 2010-03-12 22:35 UTC (History)
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Description Zigger 2005-06-10 21:05:09 UTC
There are inconsistencies between README and INSTALL, and between 1.3/1.4/1.5,
for the AMP prerequisites.
Some are due to the REL1_4 change INSTALL.1.14.2.1 not being applied to HEAD.


1. Monobook problem

README 1.3.13 - no mention of the 1.3 monobook incompatibility with PHP 5
       1.4.5, 1.5alpha2 - mentions monobook problem in PHP section, which was
fixed in 1.4.x


2. Recommended PHP version in INSTALL - 3x "4.3.x" should be "4.3.2", 2x add "or
higher", 3x "preferred"->"recommended"

INSTALL: 1.3.13, 1.5alpha2 - "4.3.x is preferred"
         1.4.5 - "4.3.x or 5.0.x is preferred"
README:  1.3.13, 1.4.5, 1.5alpha2 - "4.3.2 or higher is recommended"


3. Recommended MySQL version - 3x use README wording in INSTALL

INSTALL 1.3.13, 1.4.5, 1.5alpha2 - "4.0.x is preferred"
README  "4.0 or later is strongly recommended"


4. MySQL 4.1 warnings

INSTALL 1.3.13, 1.5alpha2 - lack mention of MySQL 4.1
        1.4.5 - refers MySQL 4.1 users to RELEASE-NOTES

RELEASE-NOTES 1.3.13 - lacks mention of MySQL 4.1
              1.4.5 - deals with MySQL 4.1 authentication (bug 650), UTF8 key
(bug 1322) and backup issues
              1.5alpha2 - only mentions the UTF8 key problem specifically (in
the to-do list)


5. PHP runtime options

RELEASE-NOTES has a security note about register_globals, which would also be
appropriate in INSTALL.

INSTALL could also have specific warnings about well-known PHP runtime options
known to break MediaWiki functionality.  safe_mode is already mentioned in the
1.4.5 and 1.5alpha2 INSTALL, but the magic_quotes_* settings crop up from time
to time.  Some are checked & prevent installation, so it would be nice to give
warning.
Comment 1 Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2006-04-30 21:00:00 UTC
it is way better with 1.6 RELEASE-NOTES:

== Compatibility ==

Older PHP 4.2 and 4.1 releases are no longer supported; PHP 4 users must
upgrade to 4.3.3 or later.

MediaWiki 1.6 is the last major version to support PHP 4; future versions
will require PHP 5.

MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade.
At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.

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