Re: Re: Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows

? Good Guy ? in php.internals (Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:16:07 +0100): >On 10/07/2020 17:01, Jan Ehrhardt wrote: >> I am building PHP for Windows myself, but I know from the questions I am >> getting that a lot of corporate customers of Microsoft are running PHP >> on Windows Server 2016 or 2019. They are only allowed to use the >> official binaries that are supplied on windows.php.net or pecl.php.net. >> These corporate customers surely will not be amused by dropping >> Microsoft's support for PHP 8. > >Have you thought of uploading your binaries on php.net AFTER Microsoft >has quit the php support?  Windows binaries were very useful for >developing websites on windows system which is still the dominant >operating system though, web developers will adapt the workload on >ubuntu and Mint.  I still use Windows and I regularly  download Apache >from apachelounge and php from the official website. No. And I will not do that, because I do not want to be liable for any consequences of using my builds. I am providing them AS IS through links on Apachelounge: https://www.apachelounge.com/viewforum.php?f=6 Many extensions I am building from git head, not from the official releases by the extension developers. Sometimes I have to patch them a little to get them building. The Solr extension for instance does not build yet for PHP 7.4. >> Besides that, SMB customers are often using Microsoft Azure for their >> Windows Server needs. Windows Azure will loose a lot of selling points >> without supported PHP binaries. A quick search on Azure marketplace >> revealed as well that some Azure partners will also be left in the cold: >> >> https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=windows+php >> Are the Azure Sales people already informed about your decision? > >I suspect Microsoft wants to market its own product called Blazor ><https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor> Microsoft's future is in services like Azure. Development tools are much less important. -- Jan