com web/windows: Simplify news entry: news/2019-08-21-1.php

Commit: 541519b52f908dd2436aad450df89ed82ddd7d48 Author: Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:45:33 +0200 Parents: 3bbd0b479dff3fed5c4758affa4102aa29279218 Branches: master Link: http://git.php.net/?p=web/windows.git;a=commitdiff;h=541519b52f908dd2436aad450df89ed82ddd7d48 Log: Simplify news entry It should be understandable by PHP programmers without deep knowledge about Windows internals and our processes. Changed paths: M news/2019-08-21-1.php Diff: diff --git a/news/2019-08-21-1.php b/news/2019-08-21-1.php index b3ed08d..0429ae8 100644 --- a/news/2019-08-21-1.php +++ b/news/2019-08-21-1.php @@ -6,15 +6,10 @@ <p> We used Visual Studio 2019 to build the early releases of PHP 7.4 (up to and including 7.4.0beta2), and although Visual Studio 2019 is generally an - improvement over Visual Studio 2017, particularly the linker/object format - is not as stable as we would like (we had to rebuilt dependency packages - several times, and got trouble reports from others who have not been able - to build with the provided dependency packages), and its adoption is not - as widespread as desired (for instance, AppVeyor would still not allow us - to do our CI with VS 2019 without extra effort). To be able to offer the - smoothest and most stable experience, we have decided to switch back to - Visual Studio 2017 for our PHP 7.4 builds, and we are planning to stick - with this for the complete lifetime of PHP 7.4. + improvement over Visual Studio 2017, but due to compatibility issues we + have decided to switch back to Visual Studio 2017 for our PHP 7.4 builds, + and we are planning to stick with this for the complete lifetime of PHP + 7.4.. </p> <p> Our master snapshots are still built with Visual Studio 2019, and we are