Re: [PHP-DOC] DIO Support on windows

[Philip Olson]

> As of PHP 5.0.0 Dio support (Direct I/O) is also available on windows, 
> whereas it used to be available only on other systems. Now, the point of 
> this is the following:
> surely we should be removing the &note.no-windows.extension from the DIO 
> main page. We should also replace it with something stating that support 
> for windows wasn't added till PHP 5.
> 
> I've been looking at the current entities, and couln't find any which 
> would point to such a thing. Keeping it as a normal string is not the 
> correct approach IMHO, seen as I feel that it might be used more often.
> 
> Should I add the new entity and change it in the DIO docs? or just 
> change the DIO docs and leave it there.

I can't think of any other extension that is available in Windows only as
of PHP 5. Because of this I think you should just write the text in the
DIO docs, as is, so no entity. And because this change is extension wide,
every DIO function does not need to mention this.

Regards,
Philip