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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:08:58 +0100
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To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

if you mentioned windows builds, whats the current status of
http://pecl4win.php.net/ ?

Tyrael

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Rafael Dohms wrote:
>>
>> 2010/3/11 Johannes Schl=C3=BCter<johannes@php.net>:
>>
>>>
>>> On the other hand merging tests to5.2 and 5.3 means that we can find ne=
w
>>> BC breaks we had overseen and either fix them or document them properly=
.
>>>
>>> So I won't "waste" too much time but not forget about 5.2.
>>>
>> As much as I agree with the push for 5.3 adoption, its surely not a
>> reality with most of the community out
>> there, like the hosting companies for example.
>>
>> So like last year i guess we should surely focus on 5.3, but not
>> discourage any 5.2 work and keep writing
>> the test for all across, 5.2, 5.3, 6.0
>>
>> Everyone at our test fest did that, save in cases where the
>> functionality was not available or altered, the
>> tests we basically the same for all versions, and i even caught a few
>> 5.2 issues in the process.
>>
>> I agree in keeping the tests alive for 5.2.
>
> Currently maintaining the 5.2 branch is essential until such time as all
> extensions are available in official builds of PHP on windows! Forcing
> projects to change their development platforms simply to support a blinke=
red
> set of rules on PHP is not helpful in moving the project forward. How man=
y
> extensions are currently stable in 5.2 on windows but not supported in 5.=
3?
> Private builds of the extensions in 5.3 are running without problems ....
> but having to direct users to other sites is as bad as the current
> fragmentation in the core code?
>
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