I just spent a lot of time pulling my hair out over a simple issue of not having the correct PHP installed. See http://drupal.org/node/71742. This is totally my fault--for a variety of reasons I never checked that.

But it seems to me that PHP must have some way to report it's version, and update.php seems a logical place to check. Better yet to check on new installs and upgrades, but I'm not sure how to do that. Whatever. MySQL and PostgreSQL checking may be harder, but there's got to be some way.

A simple "Drupal depends on version Y and you only have version X" message would have saved me hours of (admittedly self-inflicted) hair pulling.

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magico’s picture

magico commented
Title: update.php should check PHP and DBMS versions » update.php (install system) should check PHP and DBMS versions
Version: 4.7.2 » x.y.z
Priority: Minor » Normal

I think this is an important feature that the install system should take in account.

bdragon’s picture

bdragon commented
Version: x.y.z » 6.x-dev
Status: Active » Fixed

Drupal now has per module checks even. I'd call this fixed..

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.