[mapguide-internals] MapGuide 3.1.1 RC

[Jackie Ng]

I'm pretty sure it was spelled out in the release notes, but windows
installer has never been tested for a side-by-side install, whether it's
between major releases or between patch releases of the same major.minor
version. The instant setup bundle is the preferred method if side-by-side
installation is desired. It's for this reason that services and app pool
names retain the same major.minor versions between patch releases.

We still install MSVC 2012 runtime as we are still using bundled versions of
PHP and Apache httpd that were built with MSVC 2012. This is because no
version of PHP5 built with MSVC 2015 is available, the only official PHP
binaries that are built with MSVC 2015 is PHP 7 and that is still a no-go
for us because we cannot generate PHP7-compatible bindings with our copy of
SWIG. This is a problem that we must solve eventually as PHP 5.6 will be
end-of-life in December this year.

Although MapGuide is built with MSVC 2015 it integrates with PHP and Apache
through C interfaces, so things should be safe.

- Jackie



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