Hi Look at http://www.php.net/windows like that page says as of 4.3.0 windows 95 isn't supported, so I guess win98 is still supported ;) and for 4.2.0 windows 95 should work (which of course is the current version PEAR needs at least, or did you higher that number up in 1.4 ?) Here's my personal opinion, be aware ;) I think we should give up on windows 95/98 and ME, because no healthy person uses that as a server (well development env is maybe a different story) But what we should do to keep flexibility and compatibility is to follow what PHP does, and thus we should have support for win98, and even 95 if we'll have the required PHP version still at 4.2.0 But then we come down to maintenance cost/time (time is money so it's all the same) and if removing the win98 support in PEAR 1.4.0 makes things more simpler then that's probably the best road to go. As a side note, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't MS discount anymore support/updates to win98 sometime this year, thus making that OS even more unsecure, so maybe like I pointed out above, is too much work to support such legacy OS. Regards Helgi On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 04:51, Greg Beaver wrote: > As I understand it, PHP no longer actively supports windows 98 (correct > me if I'm wrong). I wonder if we can go the same route in PEAR safely? > If so, I can simplify the pear.bat file, making go-pear completely > unnecessary for a default installation using the techniques described in > my email to pear-dev regarding testing a batch file in windows 98. > > This would affect PEAR 1.4.0 and newer > > Greg -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
