Last modified: 2007-04-27 04:21:43 UTC
After a clean installation of mw 1.10-svn, the following warning appears on Special:Version page: Special:Version Warning: simplexml_load_file() expects at most 2 parameters, 3 given in \includes\SpecialVersion.php on line 28 * MediaWiki: 1.10alpha * PHP: 5.0.4 (apache2handler) * MySQL: 4.1.12 * OS: Windows XP (XAMPP)
simplexml_load_file accept an optional third operator since 5.1.x . Since this is a rare occurrence (user running mediawiki from svn with php 5.0.x), I am marking it as WONTFIX. To solve the problem, upgrade to a 5.1.x php.
I thought we were currently avoiding 5.1 dependencies in core code.
Restored to original version in r21629; unclear why Nick added the 5.1 dependency.
The answer is simply that I was not aware that I had added the 5.1 dependency. My apologies, and thank you for reverting. I would personally quite like 5.1.0 as the baseline because of entirely separate reasons (5.0 has some corruption bugs, is unmaintained, has restrictions on the usefulness of type hinting, etc), but I feel even more strongly that any such change should be agreed upon, intentional, explicit, announced clearly, and not affect 1.10 (given the proximity to release).
