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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:51:43 +0200
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To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> A download of PHP5.2.x simply works out of the box on windows ... currently
> some of us have to jump through hoops to create a downloadable windows build
> of 5.3 that our customers can use.
>
> The problem is quite definitely because of the quagmire of library versions
> that exist on windows and as yet my own customers are only just talking
> about loosing W2k so many of the newer versions are not necessary. But we DO
> need a clean source of the 'new' format windows builds and that is something
> Pierre obviously does not have the time to provide, hence the proliferation
> of builds from other sites rather than direct from windows.php.net

Your apps were running using 5.2.x before 5.3.x was out. What does it
make 5.3 a requirement now? If you can't explain that to your
customers, then you are out of luck. Windows 2000 is not supported
anymore by Microsoft, why should we support it? And it was a dead cow
already since years.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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