Arne Goedeke wrote:
Why do all these historical notes need to be removed from the docs? Some of them (regarding changes since 7.6) are still quite relevant today.
Quite, which is why they are still present in 8.0.
Debian still comes with pike 7.6 and who knows, someone might
Debian comes with 7.8, I'd say, not 7.6. Unless you use a different Debian than I do.
want to port some of his code to run on pike > 8.0 and find those quite helpful..
I reviewed the notes, and as you might notice, I kept the few which I deemed to be relevant in three years time (when 8.1 will likely follow up 8.0).
But, by all means, if you think I misjudged the relevance, roll them back in. Just keep in mind that this is against 8.1, not 8.0.