Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] Full x64 for Windows Update????

hi! On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Hans Z <zaunere@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Jorge F. Hernandez >> <jfha73@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> > Hello Pierre, >> > >> > I understand you guys are getting annoyed with me asking the same >> > question over and over again, but as you might recall, first I got a >> > "Probably in version 5.5" 5.5 came out and it's just experimental, most >> > of the x64 capabilities are not available, like memory_limit, then you >> > guys >> > told me "Maybe in version 5.6", all I'm asking is for an update >> > saying:"we are at 25%, 50%, >> > 75% of all the work that needs to be done, we plan it to be ready by >> > xx/xx/xxxx" or something like that. >> > >> > I hope you also understand me, I'm just a Linux guy that wants to throw >> > in my manager's face that PHP is better than ASP in Windows. >> > >> >> >> x64 won't make it necessary better. It won't be much faster, if at all. >> >> The only thing that x64 will bring is large integer support, large file >> support and the likes. > > > The other thing is trying to use x64 SQL Server (and possibly DB2) client > libraries in server environments. After dealing with the first, I basically > skipped the second :) Well, as far as I can tell (well, I can tell a lot right now), it is not supported yet, but that's coming soonish. I can't give a date yet but this is something independent from the core x64 support. We will provide the binaries just like we do already for other PECL extensions. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org