Now, don't laugh, but this is a proposal to remove PHP 3
documentation from the PHP manual. It remains now because history is
good, but it's been a long time (~7 years). Here's the proposal:
* Remove all non-historical PHP 3 information from the manual. There
are a few places it makes sense to leave, but not many.
* Add the removed PHP 3 content to an HTML file within /manual/ much
like phpfi2.php is there today. But not include large sections,
namely ref.sesam, debugger, PHP 3 Internals, and Migration 2->3 & 3-
>4, and instead add summaries that refer to older versions of the
manual for these at archive.org.
* Refer to this new PHP 3 file like we do to the PHP 2 file.
* PHP 3 version information was unceremoniously removed from
functions earlier this year (by the new scripts/functable.php).
While creating the patch (almost complete) I notice we have places
that refer to PHP 4 as the current PHP version. Later on we will
worry about how to handle those (the patch does in a few places) but
not today, today is all about PHP 3. Speaking of, all hail PHP 3 and
its former greatness!
If there are concerns or other suggestions for doing this then please
express them now. I'd like to finish this up before the end of the
month.
Regards,
Philip
