Making PHP 5 a first class citizen
| From: | Philip Olson | Date: | Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:25:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Making PHP 5 a first class citizen | ||
| Groups: | php.doc | ||
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Hello everyone,
What do people think about making PHP 5 a first class citizen? If done, we'd no longer have
phrases like:
- As of PHP 5
- Since PHP 5
- Added in PHP 5
Because readers are expected to be using PHP 5. However, I'm against version (x.X.x) specific
manuals for two main reasons:
- It's a lot of work to maintain
- Knowledge is power, and many write applications to work on a wide array of minor PHP versions
And because nobody really uses 5.0.x, we could easily make 5.1.0 the base. And we could tag the
current manual and have it available somewhere, in case some pour soul really wants it. What do
people think?
Regards,
Philip