Re: Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME
| From: | Frank M. Kromann | Date: | Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:20:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME | ||
| Groups: | php.internals | ||
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+1
It might be a good idea to keep the latest build of php4/5, that can run
on these systems, arround for a while so the users can download them.
- Frank
> 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.
>
> Andi
>
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