Re: Remove pre PHP 5.4 documentation

"Christoph M. Becker" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.php.documentation.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17.12.2019 at 20:54, Peter Cowburn wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 18:24, Kaulkwappe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Many people still run PHP 5.X:
>>
>> https://wordpress.org/about/stats/
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Hans Henrik Bergan <[email protected]
>> <http:///email/new/1/divinity76%40gmail.com>>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 17. Dec 2019 – 19:19 CET +0100
>> *To:* Gabriel Caruso <[email protected]
>> <http:///email/new/1/carusogabriel34%40gmail.com>>
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: Remove pre PHP 5.4 documentation
>>
>> why 5.4? can't we remove all 5.5 documentation too? who in their right
>> mind still run 5.5 over 5.6 these days?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 17:53, Gabriel Caruso <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Christoph
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 17:16 Christoph M. Becker <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I propose to remove all pre PHP 5.4 documentation from the manual,
>>>> basically like we did with pre PHP 5.0 docs years ago.  I don't think
>>>> that there is much need to document the behavior of such old versions,
>>>> and in my opinion, almost everybody (writers and readers alike) would be
>>>> better off without these documentation parts.  We could also remove
>>>> documentation regarding extensions which are unbundled as of PHP 5.4.0
>>>> (e.g. ext/sqlite).
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>
> I'd rather give it some more time, say another year, and then drop PHP 5
> entirely.

Fair enough. :)

Thanks,
Christoph

>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Christoph
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1 for this one, the documentation will be cleaner as well.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>>
>
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