Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:59272 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 97042 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2012 16:21:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Mar 2012 16:21:45 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.114.211.68 unknown Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:21:45 -0500 Received: from [217.114.211.68] ([217.114.211.68:9822] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CD/AC-28591-81F277F4 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:21:45 -0500 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <4F772D78.2060909@cubiclesoft.com> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (SunOS) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Posted-By: 217.114.211.68 Subject: Re: Confusing Windows Users 101...the download page is UNUSABLE. From: dsp@php.net (David Soria Parra) On 2012-03-31, Thomas Hruska wrote: > I've been writing software for Windows in Visual Studio since forever > and also know user-land PHP like the back of my hand and, even after a > few Google searches, I'm still scratching my head over which PHP Windows > binary download I want to use. If *I* can't figure out which version is > appropriate, neither can the average web developer. > > Fixing the Windows binary download page so that it is USABLE by the > average user should be priority #1. Thank you for letting us know about the potential problems of the windows download site. Feedback is alwahys appreciated. Why not go ahead and help out? Feel free to fork the windows website on https://github.com/php/web-windows and open a pull request. Thanks