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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wez Furlong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "PHPdev" <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Win9x support in PHP > 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 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
