TYPO3 Core

5.3.3 is a buggy version anyway, there probably is a reason why we went for 5.3.7 :)

OK I see that this is even mentioned on http://typo3.org/download.

I will ask for feedback on the core team list, but as far as I can see, version 6.0.2 runs fine using Debian Squeeze.

If you know about any issues, please give your feedback here.

See http://forum.typo3.org/index.php/t/194700/

PHP versions below 5.3.7 are know to be buggy with namespace support. TYPO3 CMS has a proxy class generator to work around this, thus in most cases this works. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54624
To make this work, the class has to be loaded via the autoloader, not with include_once.

Please also note that Debian PHP 5.3.3 is not PHP (vanilla) 5.3.3. Most likely they have backported certain fixes, although I do not know why they stay on a buggy minor version.

Hi Philipp,

thanks for your feedback!

PHP versions below 5.3.7 are know to be buggy with namespace support. TYPO3 CMS has a proxy class generator to work around this, thus in most cases this works. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54624
To make this work, the class has to be loaded via the autoloader, not with include_once.

Please also note that Debian PHP 5.3.3 is not PHP (vanilla) 5.3.3. Most likely they have backported certain fixes, although I do not know why they stay on a buggy minor version.

Well, it's their policy to stick to a version number and I think it makes sense. PHP often mixes features with bugfixes, which happened in 5.3.4 for example.
Debian is still able to backport any bugfixes, and I think they did for sure.

So my impression right now is that nobody knows about any issues. If that is the case, I suggest to adjust the requirement and mention that Debian Squeeze is supported even though it uses a lower PHP version.

Added a note about this issue at http://typo3.org/download/

We had such problem. dotdeb helps for Debian.

Bug report on bugs.debian.org is closed

Closing as a version of php5 with the requested fix is available in stable
(wheezy). It won't be fixed for oldstable (squeeze).

Richard D wrote:

Bug report on bugs.debian.org is closed

Closing as a version of php5 with the requested fix is available in stable
(wheezy). It won't be fixed for oldstable (squeeze).

True. However, in the meantime, Debian Wheezy has become stable, which ships with PHP 5.4. So it's not an issue anymore...