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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.0.0 final RTM delay
From: ml@anderiasch.de (Florian Anderiasch)

On 04.12.2015 19:01, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> Am 04.12.2015 um 18:53 schrieb Florian Anderiasch:
>> I hate to say it, but not providing an official Windows build is kind of
>> sticking the finger to everyone using Windows for PHP (not the language)
>> development.
> 
>  Sorry, but that does not explain the special treatment of Windows.
>  Red Hat provides official PHP binaries for RHEL and Fedora. Ubuntu
>  provides official PHP binaries for Ubuntu. etc. Why should Microsoft
>  not provide the official PHP binaries for Windows?

I think we're looking at the same problem from different directions :)

Many languages offer something for different platforms (see below), I
wonder why for example http://php-osx.liip.ch/ is a dedicated project
and no one (or did someone?) try to invite them (or are there better
alternatives?) to be an official part of php.net? (The formal answer
probably is "we only support the release tarball, as downloaded from
php.net - but that's not because users don't matter, just to keep the
reproducability of bugs consistent. And I think on Windows and OS X this
could warrant having blessed builds for ease of use.)

So to answer your question: We're treating Windows differently because
it's badly needed. And neither RHEL nor Fedora or Ubuntu need that.

Greetings,
Florian

3 quick examples:

python.org:
  https://www.python.org/downloads/
  Looking for Python with a different OS? Python for Windows,
Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, Other

rust-lang.org:
  https://www.rust-lang.org/downloads.html
  Downloads for 3 platforms

ruby-lang.org:
  https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/
  For Windows, just a link to RubyInstaller