On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Sebastian Bergmann <sebast...@php.net> wrote:
> Am 04.12.2015 um 18:53 schrieb Florian Anderiasch: > > I hate to say it, but not providing an official Windows build is kind of > > sticking the finger to everyone using Windows for PHP (not the language) > > development. > > Sorry, but that does not explain the special treatment of Windows. > Red Hat provides official PHP binaries for RHEL and Fedora. Ubuntu > provides official PHP binaries for Ubuntu. etc. Why should Microsoft > not provide the official PHP binaries for Windows? > > Because you're asking PHP to somehow influence Microsoft to change how they operate. That's simply not something they do or have ever done AFAIK. I don't know of a single piece of OSS that Microsoft builds and supplies binaries for, what makes you think they will start doing it just for PHP? Python, Mozilla, Pidgin, VLC and I'm sure many others provide their own binaries for Windows, they are not supplied by Microsoft. Why would PHP be any different?
