# Win9x support in PHP

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/17269
- Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/17269
- Started by Wez Furlong on 2005-07-15T12:07:16+00:00
- Messages: 5
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## #17269 — Wez Furlong — 2005-07-15T12:07:16+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/17269#17269

How many people are seriously using Win9x with PHP?

There are quite a few APIs that are either server-only or Win2k and up
that PHP would benefit from using. Before we just go ahead and use
them (breaking support for Win9x) I thought it would be a good idea to
find out how many people this will affect.

So, if you use, or know of someone that uses PHP on Win95, Win98 or
WinME, please add a comment to my blog [1] (so that we don't spam the
mailing lists with it) explaining why, so we can guage how much of an
impact bumping the version requirements for PHP would have.

Thanks!

--Wez

[1] http://netevil.org/node.php?uuid=42d7a64c-ffb7-0029-3508-2d7a64c62bef

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## #17270 — Derick Rethans — 2005-07-15T12:18:42+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/17269#17270 · In reply to: #17269

> How many people are seriously using Win9x with PHP?
> 
> There are quite a few APIs that are either server-only or Win2k and up
> that PHP would benefit from using. Before we just go ahead and use
> them (breaking support for Win9x) I thought it would be a good idea to
> find out how many people this will affect.
> 
> So, if you use, or know of someone that uses PHP on Win95, Win98 or
> WinME, please add a comment to my blog [1] (so that we don't spam the
> mailing lists with it) explaining why, so we can guage how much of an
> impact bumping the version requirements for PHP would have.

WIn95 Support was already dropped some time ago, wasn't it?

Derick

-- 
Derick Rethans
http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org

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## #17271 — Nuno Lopes — 2005-07-15T12:28:58+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/17269#17271 · In reply to: #17270

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> 
> > […]
> 
> WIn95 Support was already dropped some time ago, wasn't it?
> 
> Derick

Yep:

Version 5.0.0 Beta 3 (21-Dec-2003)
 - Dropped Windows 95 support. (Andi)

Nuno

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## #17272 — Edin Kadribasic — 2005-07-15T12:37:09+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/17269#17272 · In reply to: #17271

> > […]
>
> Yep:
>
> Version 5.0.0 Beta 3 (21-Dec-2003)
>  - Dropped Windows 95 support. (Andi)

Windows 98, ME and NT are still supported. I guess Wez was asking if we should 
make Windows 2000 minimum requirement, which I think we should.

Edin

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## #17273 — Zeev Suraski — 2005-07-15T14:36:27+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/17269#17273 · In reply to: #17269

At 15:07 15/07/2005, Wez Furlong wrote:
>How many people are seriously using Win9x with PHP?
>
>There are quite a few APIs that are either server-only or Win2k and up
>that PHP would benefit from using. Before we just go ahead and use
>them (breaking support for Win9x) I thought it would be a good idea to
>find out how many people this will affect.
>
>So, if you use, or know of someone that uses PHP on Win95, Win98 or
>WinME, please add a comment to my blog [1] (so that we don't spam the
>mailing lists with it) explaining why, so we can guage how much of an
>impact bumping the version requirements for PHP would have.

My 2c is that I haven't seen any Win9x user using PHP for the past 3 or 4 
years (that's one cent), and that the Zend range of products that supports 
Windows (including Studio, Optimizer and WinEnabler) requires Windows 2000 
at minimum (even NT is not supported), and I don't recall a single 
complaint about it in the last 2 years (the 2nd cent).

I'd say go for it.

Zeev