Re: Dumping support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

php.internals

Frank M. Kromann

19 years ago
+1 It might be a good idea to keep the latest build of php4/5, that can run on these systems, arround for a while so the users can download them. - Frank
> Hi all, > > In the spirit of dumping Win95 support in PHP 5, I'd like to officialy
dump
> Windows 98&ME support from this point onwards. We are sticking to old > Windows APIs because of this support which doesn't make much sense > considering that Microsoft has stopped supporting those platforms six
months
> ago (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/support/endofsupport.mspx). > So I see no reason for us to support Micorsoft customers better than
they do
> :) Those who are stuck on those versions should just stick to the
versions
> up to PHP 5.2.0. They are not getting Windows updates, so why should
they

Andi Gutmans

19 years ago
Yep, they are available at http://museum.php.net/ We might want to put a more prominent link on http://www.php.net/downloads.php to that page w/ an explanation. Andi