I find it easier to handle multiple PHP versions on Windows than on Linux. As you say just download zip,unpack somewhere copy php.ini-development to php.ini, an

I find it easier to handle multiple PHP versions on Windows than on Linux. As you say just download zip,unpack somewhere copy php.ini-development to php.ini, and you can do this for every minor PHP-version. Apache is almost as easy, download zip, unpack & configure apache conf to use your php. MySQL is somewhat more complicated because you need to run an setup script after unpacking the zip.