Re: Lame support for win32 mail() function -rant

Joel, The main problem is that in order to produce a PHP release for Windows which is of the same level of functionality as a release for a Unix system is quite difficult. Even though Linux, *BSD, Solaris and HP UX (as well as other unices) have their nuances, the PHP development team have an interface which is close to standardised. Take a look at ext/standard/mail.c and you will see that there is one way for Windows and another way for everyone else. Often when this is the case, some things can slip. Moreover, since software development in C often leads to work with Unix many of the developers necessarily focus on unix platforms. Should PHP developers implement a new and useful feature, fix problems which affect the majority of platforms or support a challenging port used by few? Lastly, if the you are unhappy with the level of support proffer by the PHP Developers perhaps you should look into solving the problem yourself. As you say, you've had a year to look at the mail() problem, that's plenty of time to work out C and windows and do it yourself. Hope this helps, Gavin On Tue, 22 May 2001 joel@intwebservices.com wrote: > Well I feel the need for another rant. > > <rant start> > > I reported several times about the bugs in the win32 mail() function. > Over a year ago too. > > Well it looks like all the response that was given to it was about in the > nature of "don't know nothin about it 'cause I'm into linux". > > If you want to port to Windows you could at least get some win32 > programmers to do it right. > > <rant over.> > > > >