On 10/09/16 09:32, Lester Caine wrote: > 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.
I must clarify that as I was quoting from memory since I'd failed to bookmark the thread and apologise I over egged it ... http://develissimo.com/forum/topic/104953/?page=5 So the correct quotes are "I don't consider it our job to do binary builds for people." and "If people are building critical systems that rely on binary-only releases, they really should reconsider how they do things and at the very least install a compiler on their platform of choice and learn how to build stuff themselves." While that sentiment is practical for Linux based systems, until recently it was an expensive investment to create the same environment on Windows? I have not yet tried to check out a build stack on Windows 10, but for the vast majority of PHP users it is not a practical option? -- 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
