Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] windows.php.net
[email protected] (Hannes Magnusson)
| Newsgroups | php.webmaster,php.internals.win |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 03:35, Arcane Wulf <[email protected]> wrote: > The site windows.php.net is sort of unclear as to which version is for what situation. I wasted 50 MB's of bandwidth from getting the "wrong" version twice. the VC6 and VC9 naming scheme makes VC9 seem like the newer "better" version, when they are actually intended for different uses, and it isn't made clear for the normal user if they should get thread safe or non thread safe versions. > > After downloading and installing the VC9 non thread safe version which I found out was for IIS, and the VC6 non thread safe version which is meant for use as CGI, I finally found a tutorial describing the purpose of each binary. It would have saved me 40 minutes and 50 MB's bandwidth if I had known the simple fact that VC6 Thread Safe is intended for use as a module, and VC6 Non Thread Safe is intended to be used as CGI. > > I don't know how man people make this mistake, but if 1 out of 5 people are like me, and thousands of people download from your site, that's a good deal of bandwidth wasted for a company who releases their software without charge. > > Thanks for the headsup. We'll try to make it more clear in the future. -Hannes