Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0.0 Release packaged

> I should ask for pardon on this one, and explain what exactly > I meant. I can see now that this was not a good example... > I haven't noticed the poster _asked_ for a link. > The point was, there _are_ free compilers on win32 platform. > I haven't used them, but was told they work. Mingw32 e. g. > I would expect PHP developers would lean toward such tools. We have tried to use the cygwin stuff in the past. I used it for the Windows version of PHP 2 and it really was not very good. Shane spearheaded the port to use the native MSVC compiler which is by far the most popular compiler for Windows and the result was infinitely better than what I was able to do with the cygwin compiler. I don't know why you would expect us to lean towards free tools. We lean towards the best tools for the most part. That is also why we tend to lean towards UNIX and why that gets a bit more attention. It's just a fact of life. We can't please everybody and have to make some choices. -Rasmus