Re: 5.4 moving forward

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > People who are building critical systems are in a position to make a choice, > and THEY will not be using windows. But PHP was origianlly 'Personal Home > Page' and I am sure that as many people are using PHP because of the > 'personal' element. Those are the sort of people who 5 years ago could not > afford to buy the M$ software to create their own builds, and even today > some areas of windows can't be built with the free version. We tried to fill > the gap by writing our own compilations to fill the gap, but today the > problem is that there is simply no beginners tutorial that directs people to > how they can get around the problems created by the current windows builds > of PHP. > > I said that moving people forward to PHP5.3 was another thread, and is work > that does need to be done, but simply kicking those people out into the cold > is much as M$ does every version is not the way to treat users. Keep your bashing out of this list. Thanks. No matter the target. > A SIMPLE > clean set of instructions on the windows download page would be a start, > updating the manual to reflect the current situation, and reporting errors > to third party projects We have no control over 3rd party projects, If you find misleading or wrong informations on our sites, please report a bug. But hi jacking every thread about new php release or new features is not the way, I repeat: It is not the way. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org