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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Declare minimum PHP version required?
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 04/02/2014 09:08, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> Similar thing could be achieved with new assert() w/o any overheads.
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/expectations
>
> assert('version_compare(PHP_VERSION, "5.5.0", ">=")', 'You need PHP 5.5.0
> or later');

I'm confused, isn't this exactly how assert() already works? What needs 
to change, for this example in particular?

Here it is running on several versions, giving a Warning by default: 
http://3v4l.org/TrBJm
And here it is without the second parameter, which in itself requires 
PHP 5.3: http://3v4l.org/mcQI6

It's slightly confusing that assertions issue a Warning even with 
ASSERT_BAIL turned on, but with that turned on (which can be at the ini 
level) you can see that it aborts the script as desired: 
http://3v4l.org/QZLog

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]