Hi Pierre,
It has been like that since literally years. Nothing new under the sun.
Erm... no, it hasn't. That's why I'm reporting it now.
that there is no intention of fixing
the breakage because 'the 2003 SDK has been a requirement since PHP 5.1'.
This is the first I ever heard of any such requirement - everything has
'just worked' until now with standard out-of-the-box VC6, with or without
SP* applied.
Service Packs are another story, they have absolutely nothing to do
with the platform SDK. The snaps box does not use the SP6 but will do
it for 5.3+.
Sorry, why?
It does not have impact like binary incompatibilities or
similar bad effects. However the platform SDK 2003/02 is required.
Not *required* until this week. That's exactly what I'm telling you.
Can someone please either explain the need to break a working build
system
just before a PHP release or else revert whatever changes caused the
breakage?
What you may have missed is the minimum windows version. It has been
bumped to 2k/xp a few months ago.
Actually we dropped support for Windows 98. I didn't know we'd also dropped
support for NT - if so, there was never any discussion of it on-list.
What may have happened is the fixes
in TSRM and Zend to do not override this setting. They both use now
the main php setting and it will be settable using configure before
alpha2 (but it will not work for win9x anyway as some APIs were not
available).
I don't care about win9x, we agreed to drop support for it at the end of
2006 as I recall. Not quite sure why you're focusing on that here?
The short version is: there is nothing to revert, the snap box works
and you may simply download the right SDK from (I would say, you
should download it if you really want to do the same bins than snaps):
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
It wants far more space than I actually have on my laptop hard drive. I
can't quite believe you're actually making this a *requirement* for the
first time just before a release.
- Steph
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