Re: Remove pre PHP 5.4 documentation

On 17.12.2019 at 20:54, Peter Cowburn wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 18:24, Kaulkwappe <kaulkwappe.php-mailing@prvy.eu> > wrote: > >> Many people still run PHP 5.X: >> >> https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Hans Henrik Bergan <divinity76@gmail.com >> <http:///email/new/1/divinity76%40gmail.com>> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, 17. Dec 2019 – 19:19 CET +0100 >> *To:* Gabriel Caruso <carusogabriel34@gmail.com >> <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 <carusogabriel34@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Christoph >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 17:16 Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> >>> 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, >>> >>>> >