On Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 3:33 PM Casper Langemeijer <langemei...@php.net> wrote:
> Nothing seems to happen on this front, and our Windows users like to move > to PHP 8.2 too. > > The windows.php.net site states: "This is because the Windows PECL build > machine died, and the team is still working on the long term plan of > building DLLs for PECL extensions with a new CI process." > > We are 1 year since the machine died. 6 month since the statement on the > website. From the point of view of our users nothing has changed, and are > questioning if the windows project is still alive. > > I'd like to ask: Is re-inventing the building process really a smart thing > to do if it means we'll be out-of-service for more than a year? > > "We're doing our best to finish that as soon as possible, and keep you up > to date." > > I'm not questioning intentions, but I hate to think this is 'our best'. We > should at least have and share a more concrete plan, possibly share a rough > timeframe and share if we hit a blocking problem. If help is needed, we > should ask. > Just as an FYI, for anybody in this situation, we (Zend) are doing Windows builds of PHP; these have an E2E testing pipeline they pass before release. Current community-supported versions can be downloaded for free, and we provide LTS versions commercially. We support around 60 PECL extensions as well. Install instructions here: https://help.zend.com/zendphp/current/content/installation/windows_installation.htm Supported extensions list: https://help.zend.com/zendphp/current/content/installation/php_pecl%20extensions.htm >
