[wp-testers] PHP Version Usage Report

Aaron D. Campbell aaron at xavisys.com
Tue Jun 24 01:02:40 GMT 2008


That would be 5 orders of magnitude more than 1, not 5 orders of 
magnitude more than what was already offered (roughly 1,000 results), 
which would be 100,000,000.  However I wasn't trying to get smart, I'm 
just curious :-)

Adrian Hayter wrote:
> 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.



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