[PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 4 win build system questions

2005-10-22 Thread Wez Furlong
On 10/22/05, techtonik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any developers who officially supports PHP 4 branch? Yes, we "support" people using it, but not so much people building it. We're trying to shift people on to PHP 5 so that the support burden is lessened. If you're building it yourself

[PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 4 win build system questions

2005-10-22 Thread techtonik
> > I don't want to burst your bubble, but PHP 5 is the current release of > PHP, and we've started work on PHP 6. Do as you wish, but I though PHP4 is still the most widely supported version on the web and if you're going to conquer the world you have to think about those users, who was already

[PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 4 win build system questions

2005-10-22 Thread techtonik
> If you have cygwin flex and bison, you don't need to copy anything. And if I don't have any? Can it be made as simple as "unpack and compile"? If you'll read this page http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.building.php you notice redundant instructions for copying files and setting up MS

[PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 4 win build system questions

2005-10-22 Thread Wez Furlong
I don't want to burst your bubble, but PHP 5 is the current release of PHP, and we've started work on PHP 6. The win32 build system is much more friendly; I've already spent many hours on making things better there. If you want to improve things for PHP 4, go for it, but I don't and won't have ti