[mythtv-users] mythweb no longer usable with older OS

[Tom Dexter]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>  On 08/29/2010 01:39 AM, Mitch Capper wrote:
>>
>> Yep, php 5.3 is definitely still alpha on several os's.  I have been just
>> used the work around for that get_called_class call, and changed the version
>> requirement check and it has been working fine so far.   I am sure a fake
>> get_called_class isn't great, but honestly a programming language
>> (especially php which can have major changes to default behavior between
>> versions) requiring the absolute latest isn't something I mind bypassing.
>
> PHP 5.3 is required because MythWeb is using PHP 5.3 features.  It's
> available on all major distributions--including Fedora as far back as Fedora
> 6.
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8597#comment:1
>
> Just upgrade PHP or /don't/ upgrade MythTV.  You need the required version
> of PHP to use MythWeb.
>
> Mike

It's only a requirement past 0.23-fixes...that is for trunk and the
upcoming 0.24, correct?

Tom