Re: Proposal of removing PHP4 references from the manual
| From: | Peter Cowburn | Date: | Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:44:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal of removing PHP4 references from the manual | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 | Groups: | php.doc |
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(Resending to the list, which got excluded from my original reply.)
On 15 August 2014 17:51, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Maciej,
>
> Sorry for not replying to this earlier!
>
> On 8 August 2014 12:31, Maciej Sobaczewski <sobak@php.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello teammates!
>>
>> It's again me, after a little break. I'm not going to bore you with
>> endless discussion, so I summarized of final questions we need answer for.
>>
>> But firstly, I uploaded first proposal of that thing proudly called
>> "snapshot" during this thread:
>> http://doc.php.net/archives/php4/ It is
>> based on revision 326443 (about two years old) without any additional
>> modifications. I chose this one because is directly before domxml was
>> hidden. If anyone knows better revision to choose, feel free to propose it.
>>
>> *My questions*
>> 1) Remove inline PHP4 references? YES/NO
>>
>
> Yes.
>
>
>> 2) Remove changelog entries for PHP4? YES/NO
>>
>
> Yes.
>
>
>> 3) Remove versions.xml entries for PHP4? YES/NO
>>
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> Yes.
>
>
>> 4) Remove documentation for PHP4-only extensions? YES/NO
>>
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> Yes.
>
>
>> 5) Base version for current manual? PHP 5.0.0/PHP 5.2.0/other (which one?)
>>
>
> I prefer 5.0.0.
>
>
>>
>> *Further steps to take*
>> If we agree that we want to introduce some bigger changes to the manual,
>> we need to perform the following steps:
>> 1) Create manual/php4.php that describes PHP 4 situation, links to the
>> doc snapshots, migration guide
>> 2) Mention it on docs.php (maybe more exposed warning for some time?)
>> 3) Anything else? Of course besides removing outdated informations from
>> current manual :)
>>
>
> Have you made any progress on these (points 1 and 2 specifically)?
>
>
>>
>> Please, let me know your votes.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Maciej.
>>
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