Re: Win9x support in PHP

At 15:07 15/07/2005, Wez Furlong wrote:

How many people are seriously using Win9x with PHP? There are quite a few APIs that are either server-only or Win2k and up that PHP would benefit from using. Before we just go ahead and use them (breaking support for Win9x) I thought it would be a good idea to find out how many people this will affect. So, if you use, or know of someone that uses PHP on Win95, Win98 or WinME, please add a comment to my blog [1] (so that we don't spam the mailing lists with it) explaining why, so we can guage how much of an impact bumping the version requirements for PHP would have.

My 2c is that I haven't seen any Win9x user using PHP for the past 3 or 4 years (that's one cent), and that the Zend range of products that supports Windows (including Studio, Optimizer and WinEnabler) requires Windows 2000 at minimum (even NT is not supported), and I don't recall a single complaint about it in the last 2 years (the 2nd cent). I'd say go for it. Zeev