erm, for 1993 please read 2003 :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steph" steph@zend.com
To: "Wez Furlong" kingwez@gmail.com; "Zeev Suraski" zeev@zend.com
Cc: "PHPdev" internals@lists.php.net
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Win9x support in PHP
My 2p:
I used to build regularly on Win98 until last summer, and supplied fixes
for
a couple of platform-specific PHP bugs and build issues up until that
point.
Nobody else on the internals circuit had access to Win98 then, and
nobody's
actively supported it since I stopped. The test suite has never worked
(something to do with the way pipes aren't used AFAICR) which means that
any
bugfixing there is totally reliant on external bug reports.I no longer have access to Win98 on a regular basis, and the available
evidence suggests that most PHP users don't either.A brief search in the bugs db reveals just two open reports, both dating
from last summer - one is really an IE 6.0 report about talks.php.net and
the other's a PHP-GTK report about encoding. Neither are remotely
relevant
to PHP per se.There's only ONE bug report open for NT (actually for NT 4) - against what
is now pecl/printer, and dated 1993.So yep - I'd say go for it, too.
- Steph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zeev Suraski" zeev@zend.com
To: "Wez Furlong" kingwez@gmail.com
Cc: "PHPdev" internals@lists.php.net
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Win9x support in PHPAt 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