[Phpwm] wysiwig editor

[Chris Lovell]

That is consistent with the established M$ EEE strategies, yes. This is why
Open Source is part-programming, part-political.

2009/3/6 Andy Cowan <andy at w4.co.uk>

>  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]<phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk%5D>
> *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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