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

Commit: da0d6a16cf2d7a38e69b943b0420d6ade2901275 Author: Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:15:16 +0200 Parents: 541519b52f908dd2436aad450df89ed82ddd7d48 Branches: master Link: http://git.php.net/?p=web/windows.git;a=commitdiff;h=da0d6a16cf2d7a38e69b943b0420d6ade2901275 Log: Refine news entry 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 0429ae8..43d2773 100644 --- a/news/2019-08-21-1.php +++ b/news/2019-08-21-1.php @@ -5,13 +5,18 @@ <div> <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, but due to compatibility issues we + and including 7.4.0beta2). And although Visual Studio 2019 is generally an + improvement over Visual Studio 2017, 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> + Note that it is still possible to use Apache VS16 builds from Apachelounge + in combination with PHP 7.4, since VS 2019 is forward compatible with VS + 2017. + </p> + <p> Our master snapshots are still built with Visual Studio 2019, and we are planning to stick with Visual Studio 2019 for PHP 8.0. </p>