Re: Remove "Hacker's Guide" from the PHP manual?

On 28.03.2018 at 01:11, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > In my opinion, we should remove the internals2 book[1] (“PHP at the > Core: A Hacker's Guide”) from the PHP manual, since it is still not > basically up-to-date with PHP 7 (and nobody seems to be working on > that). Actually, it even states[2]: > > | The documentation in this section is current as of PHP 5.3.3, […] > > And there is at least one bug report[3] about this. > > Instead of investing a lot of time to update the book, I think it is > more sensible to replace it with a single page which links to external > documentation, such as > <http://www.phpinternalsbook.com/>, and to help > improving and keeping the external docs up to date, if appropriate. > > Thoughts? > > [1] <http://www.php.net/manual/en/internals2.php> > [2] <http://www.php.net/manual/en/internals2.preface.php> > [3] <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73014> Thanks for the positive feedback so far! Christopher Jones mentioned <https://wiki.php.net/internals/references> in a private communication, which might be the better place to refer to external documantion. Anyhow, I wouldn't remove the "Hacker's Guide" without the blessing of the manual's editor. Peter, what do you think? -- Christoph M. Becker