RE: [PHP4BETA] Where are Windows DLLs???????

[email protected] ("Marc Ryan Ray")
Newsgroups php.version4
Message-ID <[email protected]>
What is necessary to compile these files and where do i 
find information on compiling them. There is very little 
info in the PHP manual about using PHP 4.0.  Is there a 4.0 
manual somwhere out there, or a good description of what 
modules exist for php4 and where to get the source?

Marc Ray
[email protected]
[email protected]








-----Original Message-----
From:    Steve Langasek [email protected]
Sent:    Tue, 23 May 2000 15:17:04 -0500 (CDT)
To:      [email protected]
CC:      [email protected]
Subject: RE: [PHP4BETA] Where are Windows DLLs???????


On Tue, 23 May 2000, Zack Beatty wrote:

> Thanks for the link.  Isn't there something wrong with 
the process when I
> have to be told the location of these modules by some 
random list viewer.
> Why aren't they offered by PHP.NET??  What the hell is 
swwwing.com??  If
> that is where the DLLs are going to be OFFICIALLY 
located, then shouldn't
> that be made plainly obviously on PHP.NET?  SWWING.COM 
should be explained
> in the PHP4 README, in the PHP4 migration notes, and 
should be announced as
> plainly as the ZEND company.  Otherwise, they shouldn't 
be involved.  It's
> way too secretive and unprofessional.  Just my humble 
opinion.  

Hmm. Well, you could've picked a better time to start 
leveling charges of
unprofessionalism...

Simply put, swwwing.com is NOT where the DLLs are 
officially located.
Officially, the PHP team doesn't support precompiled 
binaries of /any/ of the
code released on their site, with the exception of the 
Win32 module and CGI
listed on the download page.  If you need additional 
features under Win32,
then the "official" response will be that you should 
compile PHP from source.

Of course, since this is Open Source software, people are 
free to do just
about anything they want to with it once they've downloaded 
it, and that
includes compiling it and offering binary snapshots for 
download.
So there are Win32 binary snapshots that are made available 
on swwwing.com as
a resource for the PHP community, but they're not 
officially endorsed by the
php team.  As you correctly point out, if they were, they'd 
be mentioned on
the PHP homepage.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer



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