Re: Remove pre PHP 5.4 documentation

Howdy, > On Dec 17, 2019, at 8:15 AM, 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? IMHO it'd be okay to update inline documentation (e.g., "As of PHP 7.0.0, ...") and instead document 7+ as a first class citizen and then move (not remove) 5.x specific stuff to the individual changelog sections, and also move critically important differences to notes. The documentation is useful for refactoring/understanding older PHP code (there's a lot!) so having old and new information together is helpful. But I agree that a zillion inline version references gets messy so would focus on fixing those starting today. As for removing unbundled extensions, what does that mean in relation to PECL? Lastly, I recently had the luxury of working on a CentOS box that had PHP 5.4 as its current version; and learned this is EL 7's default PHP version. So, there's also that. Regards, Philip