On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Conrad Irwin conrad.irwin@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 May 2010 21:21, Lane, Ryan Ryan.Lane@ocean.navo.navy.mil wrote:
This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes after 1.6). The following suggestions have been put forward:
Wouldn't removing 1.6 from the main page solve the problem for most newcomers? Only those who go down to the PHP 4 section of the downloads need ever know it exists and thus get the impression that it is an older version. Once they're no-longer newcomers, we can hope that they'll have a feel for how version numbers work.
Conrad
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.
-Chad