Re: Providing Visual Studio 2005 builds (again)

Truth now Stas, did you read to the end of my mail? I wasn't suggesting we *never* upgrade. I was suggesting there are better ways to do it than alienating our user base. On Nov 13, 2007 5:55 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote: > > Yes, but we aren't talking about going to the next one up. We're > > talking about going to one that's a bit too recent and won't work out > > of the box for everybody. > > If we are going to move forward, it makes sense to move forward to the > best one today, not trade "very slow" to "a bit faster, but still slow". > If we go through upgrade trouble, we better have something to earn from > it. As for "out of the box for everybody" - we may keep the old build > for releases (I wouldn't do it for snapshots - if you want bleeding > edge, don't run windows 95 ;) at least for 5.x, but we can't > realistically drag all the history of computing behind us forever. > > VC2005 compatibility pack has these requirements: > Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 98; Windows 98 Second Edition; > Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP Service Pack 2 > > I think it's reasonable to expect most of the people would fit one of these. > -- > > Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect > stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ > (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >