PHP On Windows is a Goddamn Mess
It really really is. I’m on the windows download page. Looking at a list of six different available downloads. There’s PHP 5.3, and there’s PHP 5.2. Some say “thread safe” and some say “non thread safe”. They all say x86, which is the 32-bit version. There’s a dropdown at the top of the page which lists these. The dropdown also lists x64 downloads which are for 64-bit windows systems. But there’s no download actually available for 64-bit. Why are these in the dropdown then? There are also VC6 and VC9 versions. Wtf is that? Oh…if you read a little bit…those stand for Visual C version 6 and Visual C version 9. You know, I’m as big a geek as the next guy, and I can sort of run a C compiler, but why the fuck do I need to be exposed to this garbage?
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