Hi, On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 16:07 -0400, (Wietse Venema) wrote: > According statistics at nexen.net, PHP4 is now 68% of the installed > base (8 years of deployment) and PHP5 is 32% (almost 4 years). The > lesson I draw from this is that a major release every couple years > would heavily fragment the installed base, and complicate support.
The problem with these stats is that they count the public available installation base into account. There are many systems which simply run without any change to anything you will find lots of outdated software there. I have other stats about systems used when installing some piece of software and there PHP 5 is > 60% which is a completely different picture. So in summary: Statistics are nice, but not everything. For fans of random statistics: http://phpmyfaq.de/stats/svg/php_versions_minor_20080409230429.svg is the chart for installations of the phpMyFAQ package since 2008/01/01. (Counting only users who accepted sending their system information) johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
