On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 7:16 PM, David Zuelke <dz@heroku.com> wrote:
> The standalone sodium extension has been changed a few days ago to require libsodium 1.0.9: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-php/commit/e4d6d281cf197deb0086b592a72f282905ba7ead
>
> Will this version requirement also be ported to the PHP-7.2 branch?
>
I'm going to guess "No" since all of Frank's commits since the branch
have gone to master only so he must not be targeting 7.2 with any of
these changes.
> The reason I'm asking is because the current Ubuntu LTS (16.04) has version
> 1.0.8 of libsodium, and IMO that's an important platform to take into consideration.
> The next LTS (18.04) isn't due until mid 2018.
>
Agreed. Current Ubuntu LTS is a pretty reasonable minimum. I'm all
for taking advantage of newer lib features, but we should have enough
#ifdefs to avoid breaking reasonably old libs.
-Sara
