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

Hi Steph, When PHP 5.2.1 is released I don'expect many changes to the source three for 5.2.0 so it should not be a big problem to build as many extensions as possible from that branch and make them available for download. These would only need recompilation if the internal API's should change. I build both ZTS and non ZTS extensioons on my site and I don't mind keeping things arround for a while. I might even get the time to add gtk binaries again when I move my servers to a new location. - Frank > 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 > > -- > PHP-GTK General Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >