On 04/12/15 10:29, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: >> Windows as a platform is different from Linux/Mac in several aspects > True. But why does the PHP Project have to provide Windows binaries on > php.net? Microsoft should be treated as any other downstream vendor: let > them build their binaries on their infrastructure and let them distribute > their binaries through their channels.
I think the problem in the past has been that simply compiling on a windows machine required both proprietary software and an understanding of areas that a new user would not normally encounter. Things have changed and we can download a free environment to create a windows build almost as easily as building on any Linux distribution. That ONLY works because Pierre and others have sorted out all the problems with the build process, and the binaries are almost a free result of the QA process. It would be nice if Apache was also available as an official windows build since that can still be difficult to build privately on windows and is the main reason ApacheLounge came into existence. Yes providing windows binaries is not essential but it does at lease ensure that one is helping a windows php newbie one knows exactly what they have installed. Personally I've migrated to only running PHP on Linux these days but I still have to support windows only sites and appreciate the binary builds. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
