----- Original Message ----- > On 11/28/2012 1:26 AM, Igor Galić wrote: > > I believe there's a couple of things we all sort of agree on: > > * current state is not welcomed by users and "early" adopters > > I'm not sure what you mean by current state. Regardless, early > adopters > know no better. > > * we (the ASF) should provide an official Windows Build > > > > * That's a big task, so we should start with small steps: > > > > * Getting the damn thing to build with the latest VC > I disagree, I think we should use one where the current mod_php will > load (i.e. match versions) > which is currently VC9 (2008). Also, I know no one wants to support > XP > or Server 2003, but these are being used and will stick around till > completely dead (April 2014 IIRC). The "latest" VC builds will not > run > on either these OSs.
I think the main reason I consider this to be a good idea is that supporting a stable 2.4 ABI with VC9 means committing to a compiler which is already 4 years old. PHP doesn't support our builds, they support Apache Lounge's. Apache Lounge uses VC9 because of PHP, I presume. > > * Getting it to build without babysitting > define babysitting. * it can be scripted and hence executed on a buildbot * it doesn't break with every new release > > * using that build to create something that can be installed > > one way or another: zip, msi, whatevz > > * (semi) automating the build > > Gregg Has anyone consider that in the meanwhile we update our website to officially endorse ApacheLounge? i -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: [email protected] URL: http://brainsware.org/ GPG: 6880 4155 74BD FD7C B515 2EA5 4B1D 9E08 A097 C9AE
