drop PHP 5.4 code check

[samsonasik]

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[Ocramius]

Merged, thanks!

master: c9fd305
develop: af2328e

[cebe]

Did you really just bumped the PHP version requirement from 5.3 to 5.5 on a minor version release here? Or am I overlooking something?

[Ocramius]

@cebe yes, and it has been discussed multiple times: not a BC break

[cebe]

Can you point me to a discussion that came to that conclusion? Imo when I am having a System on PHP 5.4 and I update my ZF component from 2.5.1 to 2.5.2 and it stops working, that is a BC break.

[akrabat]

From http://framework.zend.com/blog/zend-framework-2-5-0-released.html:

Finally, we have a significant bump in our minimum supported PHP version starting with 2.5.0: we now require PHP 5.5+. PHP 5.3 is no longer receiving even security updates at this time, and PHP 5.4 support ends on 14 September 2015 — just over 3 months from now. We encourage our users on versions prior to 5.5 to migrate immediately; the migration from 5.4 to 5.5 or 5.6 is trivial, and you'll get substantial performance benefits in addition to new features.

[akrabat]

If you must continue to deploy on PHP 5.4 after 14th September 2015, then use ZF 2.4.

[cebe]

okay, so it seems you just forgot to update the requirement in composer.json in 2.5.0. Thanks for the link and info! Will use 2.4 for now.

[Maks3w]

Yep, There was a confusion when 2.5.0 was published. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Maks3w]

PD: PHP 5.4 will reach EOL next month and no more security patches will receive.