On 09/09/16 14:28, Lester Caine wrote: > I'd forgotten the official windows packages no longer had PEAR anyway. > Does make the discussion on that somewhat academic? We have been > installing Linux servers as replacements to the windows boxes so the > need to actually load newer windows builds as been rather rare, and I > was using a stacked version when I did ... which is another alternative > to distributions on windows.
Doing some digging I've found the conversations on this back in 2011. At that time the statement was made that 'php project does not provide binary builds' and 'if the user can't install a compiler they should not be using php'. I'll not name the source ... it was a thread on this list in 2011. The problem that we were discussing at the time was availability not only of PHP on windows but also Apache, and the fact that neither project provides official builds on windows. While there were 'free' paths to do your own builds on windows and I had documented my own process at that time. These were NOT acceptable by government agencies to provide audited installations. Windows applications come pre-compiled and while I think that the more modern build paths can be download for free they are not free for commercial use? An 'official' compiled build is a requirement for windows. Although that does not necessarily need to be provided by PHP. Apachelounge is an approved source amongst my customers. I think I am right in saying Pierre originally needed pickle so that PEAR could be dropped in the windows? So the only element left is bundling PEAR with the source distribution. I've not had to worry about PHP7 on windows as yet as the few sites were are allowed to use it are linux servers, but it will come a point when we need to audit a PHP7 windows installation, along with a web server. And it looks as if while 5 years ago nginx was ahead of apache, the commercialization of the former is taking it off the play list :( Just when I've got it working nicely as a background to testing multiple copies of PHP on the same code. This is about making PHP easily available across the board and while windows may now be confined to the desktop machine, it is still more popular than linux on commercial and government systems? -- 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
