Re: Re: Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows

Sam Hobbs in php.windows (Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:48:05 -0700): >I do not understand why it is Microsoft's responsibility to build PHP. >They did not develop it. They contributed a lot in making PHP perform better on Windows. In the beginning that was Pierre Joye and later Anatol Belski (weltling). >I was able to build PHP and when I suggested that the instructions be >improved the suggestion was rejected, I think because it would make the >instructions version-dependent. I think it is reasonable for the >instructions to be version-dependent. > >In php.internals: Re: Re: Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows ><https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/110923> Jan says: > >> Sometimes I have to patch them a little to get them building. > >The PHP build could be cleaned up. Perhaps Microsoft is tired of >tolerating it. If so then it seems that no one in a position to clean up >the PHP build is willing to do that. With the introduction of the Windows build environment for PHP 7.2+ building the PHP core is really cleaned up. It is the extennsion developers that sometimes need a little push to make the extensions upwards compatible. I really do hope that Christoph M. Becker (cmb69) keeps on maintaining the build environment. -- Jan