Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] Re: [PHP-DEV] Differences in VC6 and VC9 Windows builds and MSSQL Driver.

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 1:41 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Pierre Joye wrote:
>>
>> Let try to move one step forward (I would like to argue more about
>> MSFT stupid choices history but I like even more to get a fast rock
>> solid wamp stack =).
>
> :)
>
>> What do you think about a common team to work on the dependencies and
>> on a VC9 version of the apache stack? The apachelounge.com developer
>> could surely be interested as well. If yes, do you have some dedicated
>> site/pages for your work? I can try to see what we are missing or what
>> do we have in common already.
>
> Unfortunately the documentation I can't share trivially is all internal
> docs of my work on the binaries for Covalent/SpringSource.
>
> I have a number of scratch notes sitting around, and there are a bunch
> of notes at
>
>  http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/Win32SourceConversion
>  http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/WindowsVistaPlatform
>
> And I'll be writing quite a few more over the coming week or few.
>
> Note you'll be confronting other issues like default IPv6 enabled for win,
> a new directory layout for "user content" (e.g. the actual location of
> such things as conf/, htdocs/ and cgi-bin/ etc) as opposed to the binaries
> (still under Program Files etc).  Probably C:\ProgramData\ tree or something
> --- I still haven't figured out the One True Way these days for services.

Thanks for the links, I will dig into them next week!

> My goal is an MSVCRT ecosystem for x86 and x64, while yours is a Studio9
> ecosystem.  These aren't incompatible goals if we work together.

To be more precised: Our (php) goal is to get a maintainable and
reproducible windows development environment using a modern compiler.
By reproducible I mean that we have to be able to trace any of our
bins, rebuild it if necessary while knowing exactly what has been
used, from which version, etc. as we target 5.3/6.0, it sounds
reasonable enough to choose VC9 as it is the latest stable compiler.

I'll be back early next week,

Thanks already for the constructive discussions!

Cheers,
--
Pierre

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