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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 16:25:04 +0000
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To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.0.0 final RTM delay
From: t.carnage@gmail.com (Chris Riley)

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On 4 December 2015 at 13:54, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> On 04/12/15 10:29, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> >> Windows as a platform is different from Linux/Mac in several aspects
> >  True. But why does the PHP Project have to provide Windows binaries on
> >  php.net? Microsoft should be treated as any other downstream vendor:
> let
> >  them build their binaries on their infrastructure and let them
> distribute
> >  their binaries through their channels.
>
> I think the problem in the past has been that simply compiling on a
> windows machine required both proprietary software and an understanding
> of areas that a new user would not normally encounter. Things have
> changed and we can download a free environment to create a windows build
> almost as easily as building on any Linux distribution. That ONLY works
> because Pierre and others have sorted out all the problems with the
> build process, and the binaries are almost a free result of the QA
> process. It would be nice if Apache was also available as an official
> windows build since that can still be difficult to build privately on
> windows and is the main reason ApacheLounge came into existence.
>
> Yes providing windows binaries is not essential but it does at lease
> ensure that one is helping a windows php newbie one knows exactly what
> they have installed. Personally I've migrated to only running PHP on
> Linux these days but I still have to support windows only sites and
> appreciate the binary builds.
>
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If anyone feels strongly one way or another about providing binary releases
for different platforms; why not create an RFC and vote on it?

~C

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