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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Providing Visual Studio 2005 builds (again)
From: steph@zend.com ("Steph Fox")

Truth now Stas, did you read to the end of my mail? I wasn't
suggesting we *never* upgrade. I was suggesting there are better ways
to do it than alienating our user base.

On Nov 13, 2007 5:55 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote:
> > Yes, but we aren't talking about going to the next one up. We're
> > talking about going to one that's a bit too recent and won't work out
> > of the box for everybody.
>
> If we are going to move forward, it makes sense to move forward to the
> best one today, not trade "very slow" to "a bit faster, but still slow".
> If we go through upgrade trouble, we better have something to earn from
> it. As for "out of the box for everybody" - we may keep the old build
> for releases (I wouldn't do it for snapshots - if you want bleeding
> edge, don't run windows 95 ;) at least for 5.x, but we can't
> realistically drag all the history of computing behind us forever.
>
> VC2005 compatibility pack has these requirements:
> Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 98; Windows 98 Second Edition;
> Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP Service Pack 2
>
> I think it's reasonable to expect most of the people would fit one of these.
> --
>
> Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
> stas@zend.com   http://www.zend.com/
> (408)253-8829   MSN: stas@zend.com
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