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Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP

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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.
> 
> 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&alpha=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


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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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PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-11-17 13:33 +0100
  Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-11-17 15:49 +0100
    Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-11-17 16:10 +0100
    Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-11-17 16:28 +0100
      Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-11-17 16:40 +0100
        Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-11-17 17:30 +0100
          Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-11-17 17:48 +0100
        Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-11-17 20:04 +0100
          Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-17 14:44 -0500
            Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-11-18 18:08 +0100
              Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-11-18 17:22 -0600
          Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-11-17 21:31 +0000
            Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-11-18 18:10 +0100
          Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-18 05:14 +0100
            Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-18 08:40 -0500
              Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-18 19:02 +0100
                Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-18 15:27 -0500
      Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-11-17 17:24 +0100
        Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-11-17 20:04 +0100
  Re: PHP 5.5 and Windows XP Markus Grob <snoopy@ilnet.ch> - 2012-11-17 17:27 +0100

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