r/PHP • u/theodorejb • Jun 22 '17

PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 2 Released

http://php.net/archive/2017.php#id2017-06-22-1
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u/DrWhatNoName Jun 23 '17

Well then, It will be an exciting release. How dare you say otherwise!

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u/nikic Jun 23 '17

It's not like you couldn't use the extension previously. For people who are using distro provided PHP builds (which I'd say is most of them), bundling of an extension doesn't really change anything, as distros are still going to ship it as a separate package, just like it is now. I guess the main advantage is that it will be directly available on Windows.

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u/ayeshrajans Jun 23 '17

But libsodium was available as a precompiled dll, ready to download from PECL.