Drop wfUsePHP, deprecated in 1.30 and unused

Change-Id: Ic247af4e9b2b2e687ee74e990e69401426be7c31

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.32 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.32
index ffe10f2..affa83d 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.32
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.32
@@ -331,9 +331,11 @@ because of Phabricator reports.
   phase.
 * The global function wfErrorLog, deprecated since 1.25, has now been removed.
   Use MWLoggerLegacyLogger::emit or UDPTransport.
- The hooks 'SpecialRecentChangesQuery' & 'SpecialWatchlistQuery', deprecated in
+* The hooks 'SpecialRecentChangesQuery' & 'SpecialWatchlistQuery', deprecated in
   1.23, were removed. Instead, use ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters or
   ChangesListSpecialPageQuery.
+* The global function wfUsePHP, deprecated since 1.30, has now been removed. To
+  assert a newer version of PHP than MediaWiki does, use extension registration.
 
 === Deprecations in 1.32 ===
 * HTMLForm::setSubmitProgressive() is deprecated. No need to call it. Submit

diff --git a/includes/GlobalFunctions.php b/includes/GlobalFunctions.php
index 868fda3..49a2612 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/GlobalFunctions.php
+++ b/includes/GlobalFunctions.php
@@ -2455,33 +2455,6 @@ function wfDiff( $before, $after, $params = '-u' ) {
        return $diff;
 }
 
-/**
- * This function works like "use VERSION" in Perl, the program will die with a
- * backtrace if the current version of PHP is less than the version provided
- *
- * This is useful for extensions which due to their nature are not kept in sync
- * with releases, and might depend on other versions of PHP than the main code
- *
- * Note: PHP might die due to parsing errors in some cases before it ever
- *       manages to call this function, such is life
- *
- * @see perldoc -f use
- *
- * @param string|int|float $req_ver The version to check, can be a string, an integer, or a float
- *
- * @deprecated since 1.30
- *
- * @throws MWException
- */
-function wfUsePHP( $req_ver ) {
-       wfDeprecated( __FUNCTION__, '1.30' );
-       $php_ver = PHP_VERSION;
-
-       if ( version_compare( $php_ver, (string)$req_ver, '<' ) ) {
-               throw new MWException( "PHP $req_ver required--this is only $php_ver" );
-       }
-}
-
 /**
  * Return the final portion of a pathname.
  * Reimplemented because PHP5's "basename()" is buggy with multibyte text.