On 10/09/16 19:47, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > In fact, Windows does have command-line interface, moreover - Microsoft > recently invested significant resources into making this interface more > powerful and flexible. Moreover, many of the professional programmers > routinely use command-line tools on Windows. It is true that average > Windows user does not spend much time in command-line, but we need also > to remember that PHP developer is not exactly an average Windows user.
Having been working off a Linux command line for many years, I'm naturally typing 'ls -la' for 'dir' where initially it was the other way around. Having just been playing with the new tools on Windows 10 I was somewhat surprised when having hit return on 'ls -la' and thought bugger ... it listed the directory ... I'd heard rummers that Microsoft was making a Unix style option, but had not realised it was already active in W10. Except it isn't. It was the ARM tool stack that I had installed last year that and when I disabled that to get PHP to compile it was lost. Microsoft does not need to put resources in as other users have often already done the work. That said, it's not PHP developers who need the help here It's the end user of a developers work who needs an easy way to install it. The vast majority of users still stuck on PHP5.2/3 would probably not even know what PHP code they are running, even if they knew what a command line was. -- 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
