Re: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

2006-12-28 Thread Frank M. Kromann
PHP will use Win32 API calls that's not implemented in older versions of Windows so you will not be able to execute newer versions of PHP on these systems. This will affect both PHP 5 and PHP 6. You will still be able to run PHP that's built from source before the decission was made. - Frank > B

Re: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

2006-12-28 Thread Richard Quadling
Being an outsider, can there be some indication as to what this means? What I'm saying is because PHP supports Win9x/ME, there must be some things that are NOT going to be supported once support is dropped. What are those things. When this is done and code is removed, can the changelog include th

Re: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

2006-12-24 Thread Marco
+1 From me Regards Marco

Re: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

2006-12-21 Thread Frank M. Kromann
+1 It might be a good idea to keep the latest build of php4/5, that can run on these systems, arround for a while so the users can download them. - Frank > Hi all, > > In the spirit of dumping Win95 support in PHP 5, I'd like to officialy dump > Windows 98&ME support from this point onwards. We

Re: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

2006-12-21 Thread Wez Furlong
+1. I still get comments on my blog entry about this every so often: http://netevil.org/node.php?nid=336&SC=1#comments The argument for keeping support is mostly about cost; I think it's clear that people that are serious about PHP can either use linux for free or pay for a more recent version o

Re: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

2006-12-20 Thread Lester Caine
Andi Gutmans wrote: Hi all, In the spirit of dumping Win95 support in PHP 5, I'd like to officialy dump Windows 98&ME support from this point onwards. We are sticking to old Windows APIs because of this support which doesn't make much sense considering that Microsoft has stopped supporting those

Re: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

2006-12-20 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Andi Gutmans wrote: > > In the spirit of dumping Win95 support in PHP 5, I'd like to officialy dump > Windows 98&ME support from this point onwards. We are sticking to old > Windows APIs because of this support which doesn't make much sense > considering that Microsoft has stopped supporting those

Re: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

2006-12-20 Thread Pierre
Hello Andi, On 12/20/06, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unless anyone disagrees with this, we'll go ahead with this. We are waiting since months, go ahead :) --Pierre -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

2006-12-20 Thread Andi Gutmans
Hi all, In the spirit of dumping Win95 support in PHP 5, I'd like to officialy dump Windows 98&ME support from this point onwards. We are sticking to old Windows APIs because of this support which doesn't make much sense considering that Microsoft has stopped supporting those platforms six months