On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
To be honest I think we should remove it from everything. I know it requires practically zero work to maintain, but the longer it sits around the more people will be encouraged to stick with PHP4 and not move on. PHP in general has faced this for years. While the world has moved on to 5 now, there are some lingering hosts who refuse to upgrade, and keeping PHP4 products around keeps them from seeing the need to upgrade.
I don't think our goal should be to get hosts to upgrade to PHP5. I doubt we'd be very effective at that at all. If there aren't a substantial number of users still on PHP4, though, we may as well remove the mention of 1.6 as a distraction, like for the benefit of people who don't know what PHP version they have (but probably have 5). It hasn't been mentioned in the #mediawiki /topic for some time.