Re: What versions should the documentation cover?

Hi,

Some time, read the old documentation is needed to work on oldest applications.
Make an archive is a good idea but the archive will must be accessible easily from the documentation.

Best regards,

Jean-Baptiste

Win32service Lead Dev
French PHP documentation translator

> Le 25 août 2024 à 21:52, Christoph M. Becker <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> On 25.08.2024 at 21:35, Derick Rethans wrote:
> 
>>> See <https://www.php.net/docs.php>, last item.  That PHP4 and PHP5 doc
>>> removal happened a couple of years ago (after discussion on the
>>> list[1][2]), though some remnants about these old versions can still be
>>> found in the docs, and these can (and should) be removed.
>>> 
>>> Back then we decided to also remove the old migration guides but chose
>>> to keep migration56 and migration70 as service for the community.  Maybe
>>> these should be removed now as well.
>>> 
>>> [1] <https://news-web.php.net/php.doc/969387407> ff
>>> [2] <https://news-web.php.net/php.doc/969387511> ff
>> 
>> Before anything destructive gets done, I think we should create an archive (and host it) so that people who unfortunately still need this (due to having to upgrade really old stuff), aren't shafted.
> 
> Creating an archive won't hurt, but the information should be available
> in <http://doc.php.net/archives/php5/> and also on
> <https://php-legacy-docs.zend.com/manual/php5/en/index>.  Maybe some
> minor changes have been done to the migration guides (and I believe this
> is mostly about these), but probably not much (if anything changed at all).
> 
> Christoph