Re: PHP 7.0.0 final RTM delay

Hi Florian, Florian Anderiasch wrote:

On 04.12.2015 19:01, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:

Am 04.12.2015 um 18:53 schrieb Florian Anderiasch:

I hate to say it, but not providing an official Windows build is kind of sticking the finger to everyone using Windows for PHP (not the language) development.

Sorry, but that does not explain the special treatment of Windows. Red Hat provides official PHP binaries for RHEL and Fedora. Ubuntu provides official PHP binaries for Ubuntu. etc. Why should Microsoft not provide the official PHP binaries for Windows?

I think we're looking at the same problem from different directions :) Many languages offer something for different platforms (see below), I wonder why for example http://php-osx.liip.ch/ is a dedicated project and no one (or did someone?) try to invite them (or are there better alternatives?) to be an official part of php.net? (The formal answer probably is "we only support the release tarball, as downloaded from php.net - but that's not because users don't matter, just to keep the reproducability of bugs consistent. And I think on Windows and OS X this could warrant having blessed builds for ease of use.) So to answer your question: We're treating Windows differently because it's badly needed. And neither RHEL nor Fedora or Ubuntu need that.

I think it's worth pointing out that for OS X, Apple themselves distribute PHP, and in addition there's decent community package managers (Homebrew's the one I like), and it's easy to build yourself. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/