Re: Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

Andi Gutmans wrote:

Hi all, In the spirit of dumping Win95 support in PHP 5, I'd like to officialy dump Windows 98&ME support from this point onwards. We are sticking to old Windows APIs because of this support which doesn't make much sense considering that Microsoft has stopped supporting those platforms six months ago (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/support/endofsupport.mspx). So I see no reason for us to support Micorsoft customers better than they do :) Those who are stuck on those versions should just stick to the versions up to PHP 5.2.0. They are not getting Windows updates, so why should they get PHP updates? Unless anyone disagrees with this, we'll go ahead with this.

As someone who still ships W98SE as a server solution on distributed systems I would flag that just because Microsoft killed it, there are still large areas of the world who have kit that can't suport anything better. That said - as long as a W98 COMPATIBLE version of PHP5 is flagged then there should not be a problem. Personally I don't actually run the PHP stuff on the W98SE slaves, just just local fallback stuff for when a network link fails. Just quoting for a job that has some 200 machines and that should cover the cost of finally ditching the W98SE in favour of Linux anyway :) We have to PAY for XP licences even if the hardware will only handle W98SE :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Treasurer - Firebird Foundation Inc. - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php