Since it has been about a year with no PECL extensions for windows, and I don't think theire ever will be, and I want to move to 5.3, there are tough choices. A: I can try downloading from source and compiling the pecl binaries on windows. No experience compiling on windows, but I guess I can go there... B: Install a stripped down non-gui version of Ubuntu into VirtualPC or VirtualBox, both of which I have on Windows7 here. Anyone know what the performance of either would be? does one work faster than the other? If we go this route, I might also have the Mac people do this too. Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php