Re: What versions should the documentation cover?
| From: | Jean-Baptiste Nahan | Date: | Tue, 27 Aug 2024 04:23:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What versions should the documentation cover? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.doc |
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Hi,
Some time, read the old documentation is needed to work on oldest applications.
Make an archive is a good idea but the archive will must be accessible easily from the
documentation.
Best regards,
Jean-Baptiste
Win32service Lead Dev
French PHP documentation translator
> Le 25 août 2024 à 21:52, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> a écrit :
>
> On 25.08.2024 at 21:35, Derick Rethans wrote:
>
>>> See <https://www.php.net/docs.php>, last item.
>>> That PHP4 and PHP5 doc
>>> removal happened a couple of years ago (after discussion on the
>>> list[1][2]), though some remnants about these old versions can still be
>>> found in the docs, and these can (and should) be removed.
>>>
>>> Back then we decided to also remove the old migration guides but chose
>>> to keep migration56 and migration70 as service for the community. Maybe
>>> these should be removed now as well.
>>>
>>> [1] <https://news-web.php.net/php.doc/969387407>
>>> ff
>>> [2] <https://news-web.php.net/php.doc/969387511>
>>> ff
>>
>> Before anything destructive gets done, I think we should create an archive (and host it) so
>> that people who unfortunately still need this (due to having to upgrade really old stuff),
>> aren't shafted.
>
> Creating an archive won't hurt, but the information should be available
> in <http://doc.php.net/archives/php5/> and also on
> <https://php-legacy-docs.zend.com/manual/php5/en/index>.
> Maybe some
> minor changes have been done to the migration guides (and I believe this
> is mostly about these), but probably not much (if anything changed at all)..
>
> Christoph