Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #6206: all extensions

sirbinam@hotmail.com wrote: > despite popular belief the win32 platform is used > as a platform for servers. it is not against popular belief that it is used as such, it is just against common sense that it should ... anyway, win32 is very well supported by php, and although i would never use it myself, i have fixed some smaller windows-specific bug-reports myself so please do not blame us for not supporting win32, this way you are just sooting yourself in the foot > I love php but it makes it very difficult for > development as well as actual use when the win32 > biniaries do not come with all the extensions. you get binaries for your platform? lucky one! win32 is the _only_ platform we have binaries for on php.net, everyone else is supposed to build them themselfs :) > I have a serious need for the crypt and dbase > extensions. I need them on the win32 platform. > Not having them has pushed my project over due. > For some people php3 would be an easy out but > in my case that was not an option. I have found > a way around this, but I wanted to make a point > that Win32 is a popular server solution and not > supporting it make php about as propretairy as a mac. well, there is still a little difference between 'not supported' and 'not to your convenience' win32 is a supported plattform and php is not proprietary in this sense, it is just that the binary distribution does not contain everything thats possible to build if you do not have a c compiler then that is bad luck. i heard win32 do not come with one, so why don't you blame Microsoft for delivering incomplete systems and beeing proprietary instead of us? or just ask around on the lists, there _are_ users around that have built theese extensions on win32 and that are willing (and legaly allowed!) to share -- Harmut Holzgraefe hholzgra@media-engineering.de