| Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP [message #179689 is a reply to message #179679] |
Sun, 18 November 2012 04:14   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
> Luuk schrieb:
>> officially they (php) stop supporting XP.....
>> It should be a warning to all users (=sysadmins) to stop using the old
>> version, and try to get a newer version asap.
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> My development computer has been running Windows XP happily for about 6
> years now and although at some point in the future there will certainly be
> an upgrade or replacement
Which should be when you read this posting. The reason why there would be
no Windows XP support for newer PHP versions would be because Windows XP is
not supported by Microsoft anymore on machines that can reasonably run PHP.
Windows XP has reached its end-of-life on 2009-04-14, the latest Service
Pack (3) was released 2008-04-21. So there are no patches and no Service
Packs for those systems anymore.
< http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alph a=Windows+XP&Filter=FilterNO>
> I see no sense in switching to another OS just because otherwise I cannot
> test/develop using PHP 5.5.
Then do not use PHP 5.5. You can't have the cake and eat it too. You can
have either a four-year-old legacy system full of security leaks or an
up-to-date PHP version. PHP 5.3 will probably be supported until your
Windows XP machine will be finally comprised by a cracker or malware, or
becomes unusable out of sheer hardware failure or inadequacy.
And what good would do to test applications using PHP 5.5 on a Windows XP
system? Who in their right mind is still running a Web server on Windows XP
these days? I really do not see your point.
> Especially since it really shouldn't be such a big deal for the PHP team
> to continue supporting WinXP (correct me if I'm wrong).
[x] done
PointedEars
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> If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices"
> in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right...
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