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Reply-To: "Steph" <steph@zend.com>
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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:56:33 +0100
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Subject: Fw: [PHP-DEV] Win9x support in PHP
From: steph@zend.com ("Steph")

erm, for 1993 please read 2003 :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steph" <steph@zend.com>
To: "Wez Furlong" <kingwez@gmail.com>; "Zeev Suraski" <zeev@zend.com>
Cc: "PHPdev" <internals@lists.php.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Win9x support in PHP


> My 2p:
>
> I used to build regularly on Win98 until last summer, and supplied fixes
for
> a couple of platform-specific PHP bugs and build issues up until that
point.
> Nobody else on the internals circuit had access to Win98 then, and
nobody's
> actively supported it since I stopped.  The test suite has never worked
> (something to do with the way pipes aren't used AFAICR) which means that
any
> bugfixing there is totally reliant on external bug reports.
>
> I no longer have access to Win98 on a regular basis, and the available
> evidence suggests that most PHP users don't either.
>
> A brief search in the bugs db reveals just two open reports, both dating
> from last summer - one is really an IE 6.0 report about talks.php.net and
> the other's a PHP-GTK report about encoding.  Neither are remotely
relevant
> to PHP per se.
>
> There's only ONE bug report open for NT (actually for NT 4) - against what
> is now pecl/printer, and dated 1993.
>
> So yep - I'd say go for it, too.
>
> - Steph
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Zeev Suraski" <zeev@zend.com>
> To: "Wez Furlong" <kingwez@gmail.com>
> Cc: "PHPdev" <internals@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 3:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Win9x support in PHP
>
>
> > At 15:07 15/07/2005, Wez Furlong wrote:
> > >How many people are seriously using Win9x with PHP?
> > >
> > >There are quite a few APIs that are either server-only or Win2k and up
> > >that PHP would benefit from using. Before we just go ahead and use
> > >them (breaking support for Win9x) I thought it would be a good idea to
> > >find out how many people this will affect.
> > >
> > >So, if you use, or know of someone that uses PHP on Win95, Win98 or
> > >WinME, please add a comment to my blog [1] (so that we don't spam the
> > >mailing lists with it) explaining why, so we can guage how much of an
> > >impact bumping the version requirements for PHP would have.
> >
> > My 2c is that I haven't seen any Win9x user using PHP for the past 3 or
4
> > years (that's one cent), and that the Zend range of products that
supports
> > Windows (including Studio, Optimizer and WinEnabler) requires Windows
2000
> > at minimum (even NT is not supported), and I don't recall a single
> > complaint about it in the last 2 years (the 2nd cent).
> >
> > I'd say go for it.
> >
> > Zeev
> >
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