[Phpwm] wysiwig editor

[Andy Cowan]

But isn’t it likely that the ‘open source’ bits that Microsoft contribute will just be wrappers onto Windows APIs – like MSSQL, Word, Excel etc? This would mean that the Linux/Max developer wouldn’t be able to port them to Linux as the DLLs won’t exist. So the Windows version of PHP will just diverge away from the other platforms... before you know it, the tool developers will say it’s not worth supporting ‘minority’ platforms like Linux and Mac, and PHP is effectively Windows only.
 
And currently I’m running some live sites using PHP/Apache on windows. Is it not likely that the new versions of PHP on Win will be tied to IIS?
 
A.
 
From: phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mike Tipping
Sent: 06 March 2009 10:55
To: West Midlands PHP User Group
Subject: Re: [Phpwm] wysiwig editor
 
The SQL server driver is currently for windows php only.

The issue here is that Microsoft are only going to write code that runs on Windows. It will need to be ported to run with the other versions of PHP so it will take a Linux developer to convert the Windows code to Linux. In the case of the MSSQL server driver I can’t see many Linux developers seeing the need so maybe it won’t happen. PHP is part of their “open source technology centre” so I guess the code is all available to the community. 

PHP 5.3 is the first version that Microsoft have been involved with and they have had to rewrite a large part of it as the source code was lost back in PHPv3 and prior to 5.3 only 3 people know how to build PHP on windows which is why it was always late being released. They showed benchmarks between the PHP 5.2 and 5.3 on windows and the difference was pretty impressive.

On 6/3/09 10:22, "Andy Cowan" <andy at w4.co.uk> wrote:
Not just a pinch of salt – am I the only one that finds this a bit worrying?
 
The post also included the line “(but possibly only if the windows version of PHP)” – one of the best things about PHP so far is its cross platform portability, and it would be typical of them to start making the windows flavour of PHP the only real alternative, whilst the other platforms remain as poor cousins. At the moment, we develop on Windows and Mac and deploy to Linux, without any trouble at all. 
 
I have no evidence of this – I wasn’t at PHP London, anyone that was there able to reassure me? Or do I need to dig out that Ruby book? (only kidding!)
 
A.


From: phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Lovell
Sent: 06 March 2009 10:15
To: West Midlands PHP User Group
Subject: Re: [Phpwm] wysiwig editor

> “Microsoft are taking PHP very seriously and if you have any thoughts, email them and they will listen” or so the bloke says.

Mmm, I'll take that with a pinch of salt. It may have been a good few years since we had a new Halloween document but that doesn't mean they've changed their tune.



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