Re: Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...

Pierre Joye wrote:

A download of PHP5.2.x simply works out of the box on windows ... currently

some of us have to jump through hoops to create a downloadable windows build of 5.3 that our customers can use. The problem is quite definitely because of the quagmire of library versions that exist on windows and as yet my own customers are only just talking about loosing W2k so many of the newer versions are not necessary. But we DO need a clean source of the 'new' format windows builds and that is something Pierre obviously does not have the time to provide, hence the proliferation of builds from other sites rather than direct from windows.php.net

Your apps were running using 5.2.x before 5.3.x was out. What does it make 5.3 a requirement now? If you can't explain that to your customers, then you are out of luck. Windows 2000 is not supported anymore by Microsoft, why should we support it? And it was a dead cow already since years.

And the relevance of that outburst? The number of people who complain about problems with the projects I am involved with because THEY are running 5.3 means that we have to cater for it ... end of story. I was TRYING to be constructive since I do understand YOUR problems even if I do not accept your rules for solving them. The problem is simply 'windows' and I could quite happily simply tell customers we do not support it since there is no problem with Linux servers, but they have millions of pounds worth of investment in windows and will not change ... so support has to cater for that situation. Making the Linux machines stay on 5.2 is even more of a problem ... if the distro decides they only support 5.3 :( So simply sticking with 5.2 while possible ... is not practical longer term ... especially if 5.3 is the LTS version of choice. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php