/me thread

[Ferron]

* Ferron likes the new post icons and says hi to everyone again because he hasn't posted in this thread in a while.

[Josh H.]

* Josh H. thinks post icons should just be removed altogether.

[JordanMussi]

* JordanMussi agrees.
* JordanMussi also argues that post icons can be useful by adding a visual next to the text of the thread title.

[Nathan Malcolm]

* Josh H. thinks post icons should just be removed altogether.

* Nathan Malcolm says it won't be happening in 1.8.

[Josh H.]

* Josh H. haz a sad
* Josh H. wasn't aware that many (if any) plugins depended on the icons.

[Nathan Malcolm]

* Nathan Malcolm says we're trying to minimize template edits.

* Nathan Malcolm says removing post icons from 1.8 would mean even more work for theme developers and administrators.

[Josh H.]

* Josh H. now realizes that.
* Josh H. hates the post icon template edits.
* Josh H. says they're a PITA.

[s3_gunzel]

* Ben Cousins says 'Screw Frameworks'
* Ben Cousins says that he can't install them on Windows, which frankly is crap.
* Ben Cousins says he is using plain old Object Oriented PHP - Without a framework.

* Tom K. wonders why?
* Tom K. installed Laravel fine...

* s3_gunzel says he is using Windows as a production environment
* s3_gunzel says he finds it better.

[Tom K.]

* Tom K. wonders why?
* Tom K. uses windows to develop the code (or OSX) then pushes it to a Linux web server
* Tom K. doesn't understand why you'd use windows as a server for pure php
* Tom K. guesses if you needed .NET languages like ASP then fine, but for pure php it's subpar

[Jammerx2]

* Jammerx2 asks why that prevents you from installing frameworks.
* Jammerx2 is working with Laravel on Windows.