-1 on dropping PHP 5.5.

Major OS distros support LTS and we should be inline with their versions too

Will restore 5.5 for 1.6: absolutely gonna kill it in further minor versions though.

@guilhermeblanco restored

@Ocramius Symfony 3 minimum version is 5.5.9, and it depends on doctrine/cache. So you will either have to keep support for PHP 5.5 in following doctrine/cache versions, or provide LTS support for 1.6 for the next few years (so that Symfony can ship with a maintained version of doctrine/cache).
I'm not sure supporting PHP 5.5 actually requires much more work than supporting 5.6 (are you planning to use any 5.6+ feature in the library for something harder to do on 5.5 ?)

And you should check what broke the mongo tests

I personally don't care but even if the EOL of PHP 5.4 has been reached, it is still supported in Debian Wheezy until may 2018: https://packages.debian.org/Wheezy/php5

We're not a support shop, folks! We do security support and we support what
we can, but we can't nor will commit to having LTS stuff anyway. Symfony
LTS can simply rely on 1.5, and we'll fix security or very severe issues if
they pop up.

Staying in sync with the PHP releases (official ones) reduces our surface
of engagement, which is a better commitment than just stating that we will
support more (we simply don't have the resources for that). In general,
expect less supported versions by all packages in future, while we switch
non-current versions to security-only.
On Dec 5, 2015 11:55, "Kévin Dunglas" [email protected] wrote:

I personally don't care but even if the EOL of PHP 5.4 has been reached,
it is still supported in Debian Wheezy until may 2018:
https://packages.debian.org/Wheezy/php5

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#109 (comment).

You should totally drop support for all PHP 5.x versions.

-1 on removing 5.5. It's not EOLed yet. Try again in 6 months

I love this drop of 5.5 \o/

To those still commenting about 5.5, it was reverted at 9ecf923 last week.

PHP 5.5 goes EOL in about 6 months. Maybe just wait till then?

Personally, I'm not massively bothered, as long as php 5.6 support remains for at least 1 more year.

@GrahamCampbell 5.5 is still supported in this PR

Yeh, I know. ;) I was just referring to your comment when you said you'd like to drop it in the very near future,

I'm very glad php 5.3 support is finally dropped. ;)

@GrahamCampbell we will likely move to 7.0 for 1.7.x, since 5.6 is not used in any linux LTS (as far as I know)

That's a very big jump. ;(

@GrahamCampbell not a very big one, to be honest. See #109 (comment) again

@Ocramius Just for info Debian Jessie (LTS - end of life in 2020) is shipped with PHP 5.6: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/php5

@dunglas ouch :-\

We'll be on php 9 by then, lol.