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by mschuster91 3846 days ago
It's a PITA if you're developing on Windows. The less you have to do other than FTP upload, the better because SOME incompatibility WILL fuck you up. Wrong CRT version, weird path issues, package installers assuming Unix... dependencies on stuff that doesn't work on Winblows, requires PECL extensions (which are regularly unmaintained on win32),...
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krapp 3846 days ago
Not in my experience - I develop PHP on Windows and have never had an issue using Composer. I can't imagine what sort of PHP dependencies "don't work on Winblows (cute)" or which even care about your CRT, or how that would even be a Composer issue as opposed to an issue with the libraries themselves or your PHP install. It's just PHP scripts running from an archive - if PHP works, and isn't too out of date, Composer works.
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debaserab2 3846 days ago
Developing on a VM solves all of these problems. Your dev environment should match your prod environment as much as possible, anyways.

If your target host is *nix, develop on something unix-like.

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