Re: Calling all Windows users - which PHP extensions do you use?

Hi Diego,

I think it's a good idea keep a complete XML support with DOM, XSL and Tidy...

Yep, so do I. SOAP too.

Cheers, Steph Fox escreveu:

Hi all, Thanks largely to Elizabeth Smith's efforts, it's become obvious that we need to distribute a special version of PHP alongside the next PHP-GTK 2 release - definitely for the Windows 98/ME users, who will not be able to use the new 'FastCGI optimized' versions of PHP currently available for testing on php.net, and possibly for the Windows NT/XP/Vista users too. Windows 98/ME is no longer supported in PHP 5.2.1; the last version you'll be able to use on those sytems is PHP 5.2.0. The 'up' side of this is it gives us some freedom; we can make a PHP binary without considering thread safety (same as the FastCGI optimized versions) and build PHP-GTK 2 against it, giving you a fairly hefty speedup (around 25%). The 'down' side is that you won't be able to use that PHP binary alongside the official extension DLLs - a) because they're thread-safe, and b) because the PECL and snaps DLLs are being built against a version of PHP that doesn't support Win98. So we need to know which extensions you find yourselves using, because the obvious thing to do here would be to build the most common ones into the PHP binary as static (giving you less 'stuff' to distribute alongside your applications) and make any further extensions available through the download page on request. If you're running under NT/XP/Vista, we'd still like to know your needs because a) there are currently no PECL extensions provided for the FastCGI optimized binaries, and b) to the best of my knowledge these are currently built against the 'old' C runtime rather than the one optimal for your system. Both these things are likely to change in the foreseeable future... we just don't know when. So - feedback, please! Thanks, - Steph

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