On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Sebastian Bergmann <sebast...@php.net> wrote:
> Am 03.12.2015 um 16:10 schrieb Julien Pauli: > > We, PHP, are not distros maintainers. > > Well said. But why, then, do we provide Windows binaries? > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > loaded question, I think it would worth splitting the discussion into a separate thread. my understanding is that at the time when we started distributing windows binaries there were no binary distributions for php windows. nowadays there are a bunch of other places for people to fetch their windows binaries (the MS web platform installer, apachelounge, the numerous wamp stacks, etc.) so there are less reasons to do so, but this is how we did for years, and changing this would require a discussion and probably an RFC and vote. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
