Min PHP 7.3

[dereuromark]

No need to work with 7.2...8.2 now

https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/blob/4.x/composer.json#L25 is even 7.4 already

[MasterOdin]

Need to also update the require.php value to be >=7.3 as well so that someone doesn't try to install phinx on 7.2 and it's broken since we're not targeting it anymore.

[MasterOdin]

I would consider dropping support for a PHP version a breaking change, and so would necessitate a 0.14.0 release, and so I'd want to hold off doing this until the 0.13.x release line is more stabilized. Additionally, on upping the min version, I think we should drop both 7.2 and 7.3 and use 7.4 and above to be inline with the CakePHP projects.

[dereuromark]

1.x will be 8.1 probably
But dropping a Version is a minor (semantic)

[dereuromark]

I dont see a file require.php anywhere.

[MasterOdin]

I meant the php key/value pair under the require object in the composer.json. It's currently set to >=7.2 which should be updated.

[MasterOdin]

But dropping a Version is a minor (semantic)

I guess? Except that since we're still using 0.x versioning, it means that part of the way through a major release, some people may be locked out of a future release since we cannot go back and do bugfix releases. I also feel like 0.13.x has ended up not being as stabilized yet as I'd like so I wouldn't want to get people on PHP 7.2 stuck with a slightly buggy version. There's also not really anything in PHP 7.3 that'd be incorporated into phinx beyond bumping dependency/devDependency versions.

All in all, I'd like to hold off doing this until we see 0.13.x stabilized, and are looking forward to a 0.14.0 release, and then drop minimally PHP 7.2 and 7.3, and support PHP 7.4 purely for compatibility reasons with cakephp/migrations.

[dereuromark]

Anyone still using < 7.4 is seriously in trouble either way.
I doubt setting 7.3 as minimum has any impact on any normal user of the tool.

As for the rest: Yes, it was rather a rollercoaster, partially due to everyone only being able to commit very small to this project.

But raising the minimum is a super simple task that composer is fully in control, I dont see an issue here.

[dereuromark]

Given EOL in 2020 I removed support here now, we will make this clear in the release notes.
But it should simply not be used anymore in favor of 7.3+ on all systems out there.
Composer will give a clear feedback here if violated (and not download updates), therefore no BC issue per se.