I definitely think it's worth another go. VS 2005 binaries are significantly faster than VC 6 (at least last time I checked). We can also help out a bit with issues as we've tackled some of them already.
Andi > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 7:20 AM > To: Pierre > Cc: PHP Internals List; Frank M. Kromann; Edin Kadribasic; Dmitry > Stogov > Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: VS 2005 Support for 5.3? > > Hi Pierre, > > Going forward this might be a good idea, but there needs to be a good > amount of testing. > I have ran into an issue recently running apps built with VS 2005 using > dynamically linked libraries built with older versions due to different > runtime linking, which did make me think of this specific issue. > Seeing > that there are a crap load of third part dlls, things will need some > extensive testing. > > The issue I saw was due to the fact that the application (built with > 2005) created a FILE * using fopen. This was passed to a dll, which > called fwrite (built with an older version). fwrite() was called within > msvcrt8, while fopen was called within msvcrt causing a crash due to > the > use of different runtimes. > > Of course the FILE * probably should have been obtained from the dll > (API permitting), but there is a good potential for similar issues with > the number of libraries around and the fact that they can no longer > rely > on always being called from msvcrt like they could in the old days. > > Rob > > Pierre wrote: > > Hi, > > > > One important thing we forgot to discuss is to drop VS6 support fin > > 5.3 and finally move to VS2005. > > > > It has a couple of side effects but it is a one time job and should > > make our life easier on windows from 5.3 and up. > > > > Comments? > > > > Cheers, > > --Pierre > > > > > > -- > 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
