Re: PHP 7.0.0 final RTM delay

On Dec 3, 2015 10:27 PM, "Ferenc Kovacs" <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> > wrote: > > > Am 03.12.2015 um 16:10 schrieb Julien Pauli: > > > We, PHP, are not distros maintainers. > > > > Well said. But why, then, do we provide Windows binaries? > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > loaded question, I think it would worth splitting the discussion into a > separate thread. > my understanding is that at the time when we started distributing windows > binaries there were no binary distributions for php windows. > nowadays there are a bunch of other places for people to fetch their > windows binaries (the MS web platform installer, apachelounge, the numerous > wamp stacks, etc.) so there are less reasons to do so, but this is how we > did for years, and changing this would require a discussion and probably an > RFC and vote. > All of them use php.net. all. There are special builds but for binary compatibility reasons, we manage to unify them all. > -- > Ferenc Kovács > @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu