On 4 December 2015 at 13:54, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> On 04/12/15 10:29, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > >> Windows as a platform is different from Linux/Mac in several aspects > > True. But why does the PHP Project have to provide Windows binaries on > > php.net? Microsoft should be treated as any other downstream vendor: > let > > them build their binaries on their infrastructure and let them > distribute > > their binaries through their channels. > > I think the problem in the past has been that simply compiling on a > windows machine required both proprietary software and an understanding > of areas that a new user would not normally encounter. Things have > changed and we can download a free environment to create a windows build > almost as easily as building on any Linux distribution. That ONLY works > because Pierre and others have sorted out all the problems with the > build process, and the binaries are almost a free result of the QA > process. It would be nice if Apache was also available as an official > windows build since that can still be difficult to build privately on > windows and is the main reason ApacheLounge came into existence. > > Yes providing windows binaries is not essential but it does at lease > ensure that one is helping a windows php newbie one knows exactly what > they have installed. Personally I've migrated to only running PHP on > Linux these days but I still have to support windows only sites and > appreciate the binary builds. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > If anyone feels strongly one way or another about providing binary releases for different platforms; why not create an RFC and vote on it? ~C
