RE: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 andWindows ME
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:14:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 andWindows ME | ||
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Yep, they are available at http://museum.php.net/
We might want to put a more prominent link on
http://www.php.net/downloads.php to that page w/ an
explanation.
Andi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank M. Kromann [mailto:frank@kromann.info]
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:20 PM
> To: Andi Gutmans
> Cc: 'PHP internals'
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dumping support for Windows 98 andWindows ME
>
> +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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