#5 Better Windows support

[Paul Chandler]

Most operating system vendors give you usable compilers. Microsoft charges good money for inexcusably bad compilers, but that's still not reason enough to deny xrange support for Windows. Establishing a suitable build environment has been the biggest hindrance to a Windows-port. xrange should have regular Windows binary releases, but it's easier said than done. PHP, and its extensions, are profoundly difficult to build using Windows. xrange will eventually hit this target, but the question is when?

PECL / PEAR support for this project is almost assuredly the only way to automate this process without painful time investments on my own. This extension is also quickly turning into a debate between for(;;) vs. foreach(), which isn't helping.

Automated binary builds are a must-have, but I don't have the resources to compile & package for non-UNIX... not yet anyway. This is a reminder-bug to get off ass and build these packages.