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composer install fails with php 5.6 and composer 2.2 #45
Description
Bug Report
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Describe the current, buggy behavior
The dependence on "johnpbloch/wordpress-core": "dev-master" is now failing on PHP 5.6, which I understand is still supposed to be supported.
Describe how other contributors can replicate this bug
- make your PHP 5.6
- use composer 2.2 (so 5.6 is supported)
- clone wp-cli-dev
- composer install.
The error is:
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
Problem 1
- Root composer.json requires johnpbloch/wordpress-core dev-master -> satisfiable by johnpbloch/wordpress-core[dev-master].
- johnpbloch/wordpress-core dev-master requires php >=7.0.0 -> your php version (5.6.40) does not satisfy that requirement.
Describe what you would expect as the correct outcome
It should succed
Let us know what environment you are running this on
OS: Linux toddr-cl8.dev.cpanel.net 4.18.0-477.13.1.lve.1.el8.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 17 15:05:09 EDT 2023 x86_64
Shell: /usr/bin/zsh
PHP binary: /home/cli/bin/php
PHP version: 5.6.40
php.ini used: /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/etc/php.ini
MySQL binary: /usr/bin/mysql
MySQL version: mysql Ver 8.0.34 for Linux on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server - GPL)
SQL modes:
WP-CLI root dir: /home/cli/wp-cli-dev/wp-cli
WP-CLI vendor dir: /home/cli/wp-cli-dev/wp-cli/vendor
WP_CLI phar path:
WP-CLI packages dir:
WP-CLI cache dir: /home/cli/.wp-cli/cache
WP-CLI global config:
WP-CLI project config: /home/cli/wp-cli-dev/wp-cli.yml
WP-CLI version: 2.9.0-alpha
Provide a possible solution
I think this is the fix but I don't know enough about composer.json to be sure.
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 5e6784c..a787647 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
"wp-cli/wp-config-transformer": "dev-main as 1.2.x-dev",
"wp-cli/wp-super-cache-cli": "dev-main",
"johnpbloch/wordpress-core-installer": "^1.0 || ^2.0",
- "johnpbloch/wordpress-core": "dev-master"
+ "johnpbloch/wordpress-core": "~6"
},
"require-dev": {
"roave/security-advisories": "dev-latest"
Activity
danielbachhuber commentedon Aug 28, 2023
It looks like the minimum supported PHP version was recently updated: johnpbloch/wordpress@d3b0895
johnpbloch/wordpress-corewas added as a dependency here: 22e0d23We've had to do a ton of PRs like wp-cli/wp-config-transformer#42
In honesty, I'm not actually sure what it's used for. @wp-cli/committers Anyone know?
swissspidy commentedon Oct 31, 2023
No idea. @schlessera any insights?
mrsdizzie commentedon Feb 14, 2025
This has gotten worse
I wanted to address a test failure on PHP 5.6 / WP 3.7 but it is not easy : ) It seems now even our own requirements (from
dist-archive-command) limit this to PHP 7.4swissspidy commentedon Feb 14, 2025
The
symfony/processone is also tracked here: wp-cli/wp-cli#6018We'll probably bump the PHP requirement at some point this year, but I understand it's still frustrating in the meantime. Running
composer installwith--ignore-platform-reqsshould help though.As for the
johnpbloch/wordpress-coreone, I have no idea what this is used for. Maybe just to have quick access to WP files? 🤷I think we can remove that one and if something breaks we'll learn about it sooner or later.
swissspidy commentedon Aug 25, 2025
Closing for now since we bumped the requirements recently.