Re: When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

hi, On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Thomas Hruska <thruska@cubiclesoft.com>wrote: > >> It is approaching 2 1/2 years since the last release of PHP 5.2. 5.2 has >> been declared dead on more than one occasion around here. The dust has >> more or less settled since PHP 5.3 EOL was announced. The ONLY reason I >> still support 5.2 in my own userland software is because the 5.2 binaries >> are available on windows.php.net. There are some things I'd like to do >> that are only available in the core in 5.3 and later but I won't do them >> until the binaries for 5.2 disappear from the website. I like to make sure >> I reach the widest possible, yet rationally supportable audience. As such, >> I figure that generally supporting whatever users can download from an >> official source is a good logical cutoff point. >> >> Is the issue the 5.2 binaries haven't been retired due to 5.2 being >> compiled with VC6? VC10 and VC11 runtimes fixed a lot of the issues that >> the VC8 and VC9 runtimes had. I've dropped VC11 runtimes into the same >> directory as the PHP 5.5 binaries and they seem to work fine on hosts >> without VC11 on them. That is a huge improvement over the VC9 runtimes, >> which are a nightmare to work with from both a development and deployment >> perspective. >> >> What I'm NOT saying is that the 5.2 binaries should come down right now. >> What I am saying is that the discussion and the plan formulated for their >> removal should take place if it hasn't already. >> >> > Currently the downloads page on http://php.net/ only lists the > supported > versions(5.3, 5.4, 5.5) and I think that > http://windows.php.net/ should be > synced with that, so the 5.2 links should be removed. > http://museum.php.net/ already has those binaries, so it would > be still > available for those who are looking for that version, but without the > possible confusion that the 5.2 version is still supported on windows. > Pierre, what do you think? There is no link from windows.php.net web sites to 5.2. They only remain in the downloads section, if accessed directly. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org