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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] windows.php.net
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl> wrote:
> Curiously enough Pierre just said this in php.pecl.dev (Thu, 29 Aug 2013
> 19:59:01 +0200):
>>You can also get some here:
>>
>>http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/ snaps or releases
>>
>>which is about to be the place where pecl official binaries will be
>>always be available, with links from pecl.php.net.
>
> "about to be the place" seems to indicate there are plans with it.

Pecl binaries build automation (and per request) is being hardly
worked on. It shares the build and testing infrastructure and will
share the web parts as well, be for releases or snapshots. That's what
I was talking about on the pecl-dev list.

> Hannes Magnusson in php.internals (Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:24:24 -0700):
>>The only addition I have to this is: The site is tricky to navigate and we
>>constantly get questions about where what is - which I don't even know so
>>have to send the requests elsewhere.
>
> I agree that it is hard to navigate. The most valuable information can
> be found navigating through the directory structure from this starting
> point: http://windows.php.net/downloads/

Right, not easy to provide something more friendly. Contributions or
ideas welcome, as long as it is under *.php.net :-)

> The snaps of PHP 5.5 are quite up-to-date:
> http://windows.php.net/downloads/snaps/php-5.5/

> My idea: discard the homepage, make that a mirror of the homepage of
> php.net. And create a good interface for the downloads.

No, but the idea is really to provide more in depth information about
what happened in a given release from the windows side. Everything
does not fit well in NEWS or in the announcement. We need to fix that
and make sure it is actually updated on each release.

I will be with the other team members working on the windows support
in September, fixing these issues is our top todos.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org