Someone upgrading from 4.4 to 6.0 would then have to work through a ton of guides obviously. I guess there may be something that get reverted in between (like E_STRICT on var), but those should be rare. There could of course be improvements to changes or ease previous BC breaks. So of course there would be a benefit to provide specific guides, but the effort is going to be huge.
Lukas, OK, I misunderstood you there then. I thought you were talking about limiting the 'upgrading-from' part to 4.4, which would make perfect sense to me.
Maybe we can provide each of the points in the upgrading guide online as well, where people can comment on the relevance of the given point to specific version jumps.
That wouldn't be a bad idea. The 5.1 version got criticism for not being helpful enough about workarounds; user notes could provide examples where we failed in that way. I'm not suggesting we should just leave users to guess, but sometimes having 8 different explanations provides an 'aha' moment where the first explanation failed.
- Steph
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