Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47169 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 16829 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2010 16:55:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Mar 2010 16:55:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 213.123.26.180 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.123.26.180 c2beaomr02.btconnect.com Received: from [213.123.26.180] ([213.123.26.180:5014] helo=c2beaomr02.btconnect.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 1F/D8-13686-5027A9B4 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:55:35 -0500 Received: from [10.0.0.5] (host81-138-11-136.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.138.11.136]) by c2beaomr02.btconnect.com with ESMTP id DHL31136; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:55:23 GMT X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=Fair-1, source=Queried, refid=0001.0A0B0301.4B9A71FB.021C, actions=tag Message-ID: <4B9A71FB.1020702@lsces.co.uk> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:55:23 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100217 Fedora/2.0.3-1.fc12 SeaMonkey/2.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP internals References: <4B9926E8.4080202@lerdorf.com> <4B995F83.1000605@prohost.org> <4B99639B.9030405@oracle.com> <4B996975.9070003@oracle.com> <4B997230.3070801@prohost.org> <1268348090.3959.52.camel@guybrush> <33cd61491003111817q3ff31924l7249a24b7de4d2e9@mail.gmail.com> <4B99D72B.40605@lsces.co.uk> <4B9A67FE.6010502@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <4B9A67FE.6010502@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=c2beaomr02.btconnect.com X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A0B0201.4B9A7203.0113,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2009-07-20 21:54:04, dmn=5.7.1/2009-08-27, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6 From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) Christopher Jones wrote: > > > Lester Caine wrote: > >> 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 blinkered set of rules on PHP is not helpful in moving the >> project forward. How many 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? >> > > Nobody is arguing against maintaining 5.2 for the near-mid future. > If you want Windows binaries, start building . . . . I already do ;) And provide a build of PHP5.3 to go with apache on x64 windows, but it's not an official build .... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php