I don't have the time to click all the links to see if they have updated for critical security updates after each release - or to see if the sites even work anymore. When PHP was a young project it may have been difficult to find binaries. Today, there are roughly 100x other places you can find binaries then we link to.
Its great that you keep your binaries up2date, but we cannot be showing preferential treatment to projects giving the false impression they are somehow "approved" by php.net. I cannot maintain this list and cannot verify its quality. I recommend you start your own list if you would like a list of this sort of projects. -Hannes On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Daniel Lopez <dan...@bitnami.com> wrote: > Hi Hannes, > > Can you elaborate a bit more on why they would be harmful? We would > like to address any concerns you may have. Our binaries (Bitnami / > XAMPP) are kept up to date (sometimes within ours of a new release) > and we support all versions of PHP, including RC. A lot of users, > specially new ones on platforms like OS X and Windows, find pre-built > binaries very useful to get up and running > > Best regards > > Daniel > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Hannes Magnusson <bj...@php.net> wrote: >> Commit: 6dfbaafab81e5b53419f95a5203a2b4e30e46a98 >> Author: Hannes Magnusson <bj...@mongodb.com> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 >> 10:05:03 -0700 >> Parents: c9da59289b2b9853ada05f8b3c1c304ea221c45c >> Branches: master >> >> Link: >> http://git.php.net/?p=web/php.git;a=commitdiff;h=6dfbaafab81e5b53419f95a5203a2b4e30e46a98 >> >> Log: >> This list hasn't been useful for long time and does more harm then good >> >> Changed paths: >> M downloads.php >> >> >> Diff: >> diff --git a/downloads.php b/downloads.php >> index a98b1f1..a591731 100644 >> --- a/downloads.php >> +++ b/downloads.php >> @@ -61,36 +61,6 @@ $SIDEBAR_DATA = ' >> <p class="panel"><a href="http://snaps.php.net/";>Development >> Snapshots</a></p> >> <p class="panel"><a href="/git.php">Development sources (git)</a></p> >> <p class="panel"><a href="/releases/">Old archives</a></p> >> - >> -<div class="panel"> >> - <p class="headline">Binaries</p> >> - <div class="body"> >> - <p> >> - We do not distribute UNIX/Linux binaries. Most Linux >> - distributions come with PHP these days, so if you do >> - not want to compile your own, go to your distribution\'s >> - download site. Binaries available on external servers: >> - </p> >> - <ul> >> - <li><a href="http://windows.php.net/";>Windows (PHP.net)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://bitnami.com/stack/wamp";>Windows (BitNami)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://www.ampps.com/";>Windows (AMPPS)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/download.html";>Windows >> (XAMPP)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://www.ampps.com/";>Mac OS X (AMPPS)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://www.mamp.info/";>Mac OS X (MAMP)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/";>Mac OS X (XAMPP)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://bitnami.com/stack/mamp";>Mac OS X >> (BitNami)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://bitnami.com/stack/lamp";>Linux (BitNami)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/";>Linux (XAMPP)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://www.ampps.com/";>Linux (AMPPS)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://iuscommunity.org/";>Redhat/CentOS Binaries >> (IUS)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://rpms.famillecollet.com/";>Fedora/Redhat/CentOS >> Binaries (Remi)</a></li> >> - <li><a href="http://www.opencsw.org/packages/php5";>Solaris OpenCSW >> packages</a></li> >> - </ul> >> - </div> >> -</div> >> - >> - >> '; >> >> site_header("Downloads", >> >> >> -- >> PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > > > -- > Daniel Lopez, CEO. http://bitnami.com > Confidential - All Rights Reserved. BitNami © 2014 -- PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
