[wp-testers] PHP Version Usage Report

Adrian Hayter adrianhayter at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 00:56:02 GMT 2008


Isn't "5 orders of magnitude" 10^5 (i.e. 100,000)...

Aaron D. Campbell wrote:
> 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
>
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