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pornel on July 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP to deprecate MySQL extension

You don't have to use Linux VM for anything other than PHP + web server.

You can still develop on Windows, just instead of testing on localhost, you'd test on local VM.

eropple on July 16, 2011 [–]

I realize that, and like I said, I do for final testing. It's enough of a roadblock to rapid development for me to avoid it until I have to make sure it will work on the platform. (VMware shared folders don't always play nicely, so I end up just pushing via hg.)

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