On 10.03.2020 at 13:59, Anatol Belski wrote: > I'd see not much value in switching to debug builds for the snapshots. > Currently the snapshots are public and are built with PGO. This makes > it easy for users to test any provided revision. Debug builds are > better suitable for the runtime development, but they require a debug > runtime, can't use PGO and are in most case unusable for users. > > IMO, if debug builds of snapshots are needed for something, they might > be added, but release buids of snapshots should not be removed. It is > more important to ensure release builds, for debug they're also > suitable in 98% of cases as it always contains debug symbols. There are > many other points that would speak against switching to debug builds > only. For the developer needs, debug builds can always be done on > demand.
Thanks Anatol! These are very valid points indeed. I think we shall re-consider. It would be helpful to know who actually uses the snapshot builds, and for which purpose. So any feedback on that would be welcome as well. Thanks, Christoph -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
