# Fw: Win9x support in PHP - Thread: https://externals.io/message/17282 - Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/17282 - Started by Steph on 2005-07-16T13:56:33+00:00 - Messages: 1 - Reply by email to internals@lists.php.net - More for agents: search with https://externals.io/search.md?q={query} · JSON API at https://externals.io/api · documentation at https://externals.io/llms.txt --- ## #17282 — Steph — 2005-07-16T13:56:33+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/17282#17282 erm, for 1993 please read 2003 :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steph" To: "Wez Furlong" ; "Zeev Suraski" Cc: "PHPdev" 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" > To: "Wez Furlong" > Cc: "PHPdev" > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 3:36 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Win9x support in PHP > > > > […] 4 > > […] supports > > […] 2000 > > […]