Re: Compilers, SDK support roadmap

[email protected] ("Pierre Joye")
Newsgroups php.internals.win
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Andi,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Andi Gutmans <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just wondering what the value is in doing both VC8 and VC9.
> Shouldn't we just go with latest and greatest or are there some other
> third party dependencies we are struggling with?

VC9 is relatively new (released this year, 1st service packin beta
phase). Other projects like ICU use VC8 (I heard that Apache may move
to VC8 as well). We can choose to go with VC9 but we may have to
provide our own custom builds (server and libs) for too long and
that's a big time consuming task.

The good news is that VC8 and VC9 are very closed and sources are
almost always compatible. Except some posix compliances stuff being
(re)introduced like vsnprintf or limits.h, it is a matter of simply
importing a project in VC9 to get a VC9 build. Note that the server
2k8 SDK (PSDK 6.0/6.1) supports VC8 and VC9.

Cheers,
--
Pierre

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