Wincache for PHP 8?

Question

User1924036252 posted

Since Microsoft officially dropped support for PHP 8 and won't provide any binaries for it, will the same be true for Wincache? Or will you continue maintaining Wincache for PHP 8 and future versions?

Answer 1

User690216013 posted

You might ask if there won't be PHP 8 for Windows, then what's the point of keeping Wincache for PHP 8?

Answer 2

User1924036252 posted

Well, in detail they announced that they will no longer create the Windows builds for PHP 8 for https://php.net/ but they explicitly said they would expect someone else to continue doing so, so nothing would really change for the PHP users.

I also remember that Microsoft was not officially building / supporting Wincache for a while now and that the people who do actually do it in their spare time. So I wondered if these volunteers are planning to continue to do so, or if they see Microsofts official PHP 8 statement as a reason to discontinue Wincache support too.

Since nobody replied, I think we can assume that Wincache will probably not be maintained anymore and thus will cease to function in PHP 8 and all future versions.

Answer 3

User409000176 posted

Since Microsoft officially dropped support for PHP 8 and won't provide any binaries for it, will the same be true for Wincache?

Yes.

The code is checked into the php.net git repo, and anyone who wishes to take over for maintaining it is more than welcome to get involved. 

I'd highly recommend subscribing to the PHP INTERNALS mail alias, as well as getting familiar with the steps to build PHP for Windows.

    --E.

Answer 4

User1059758396 posted

I'm a bit confused by all of this because windows.php.net has not stopped posting builds for Windows under PHP 8. In fact, the most recent version of PHP 8 is already available for Windows on that website, which is where the Windows builds have always been made available. They were never posted for download directly on the main php.net website.

Answer 5

User690216013 posted

SugarD-x

I'm a bit confused by all of this because windows.php.net has not stopped posting builds for Windows under PHP 8.

If any issue happens and you want some assistance, then Microsoft won't be there,

app-service-linux-docs/php_support.md at master · Azure/app-service-linux-docs (github.com)

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/110907 

The PHP community seems to take over the responsibilities to publish PHP binaries for Windows, but not clear what else they might work on and whether Windows Cache extension is included.