Re: Versions of PEAR/PHP in the wild

Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson wrote: > Hi > > We actually have this kind of information available already via: > pear.php.net/~greg/stats/ well okey kinda similar, not percents or > anything but viable enough :) > > Would be cool to expand it to show info about minor PEAR versions also. > > Not sure if many people knew about this stats thing tho ;-) One word of caution: for every single request to xmlrpc.php, the same must be done with 4-5 requests for REST files. To get a really accurate picture, the best thing is to track downloads of package files by the PEAR installer. The stats page does not do that because I don't want to drag down the server with my cron job :), and I really only want to track trend data here. Note that the stats page doesn't track PHP 5.2.x, so we are losing some data there. It shows a clear trend from December when I started tracking to now: December: PHP 5.1.x was already the most popular PHP version, and PHP 5 users outnumbered PHP 4 users 1.5:1. PHP 5.1 users outnumbered PHP 5.0 users about 1.4:1 PEAR 1.4.x had already been adopted at greater than 96% (worst was 96.02%) Now: PHP 5.1.x is by far the most popular version, outnumbering all other versions 1.7:1. PHP 5.0.x is basically dead (thank GOD) as far as PEAR is concerned. There are still about 40 accesses by PHP 4.2, but they've upgraded to PEAR 1.4.x. PEAR 1.4.x is adopted at 99.66% over all PHP versions. This basically means the following: You can safely stop using package.xml 1.0 altogether. Soon, you can safely use PHP 5.1.x+ for all packages, not just new ones. Greg