[wp-testers] PHP Version Usage Report

[Aaron D. Campbell]

5 orders of magnitude...can you give a rough estimate of how many 
records you're talking about?  10 million?  100 million?  1 billion?

Andy Skelton wrote:
> >From the upgrade API we have gathered PHP version numbers from quite a
> lot of blogs. An informal survey of mailing lists wouldn't come within
> five orders of magnitude. :)
>
> The majority of WordPress blogs are run on PHP5 but it is a slim
> majority. Last I checked it was closer than 60/40. We'll see what
> happens to those numbers after August but I expect we won't raise the
> PHP requirement  before next year.
>
> Andy