Hi all, on Tuesday, PHP 8.1.0alpha1 is supposed to be tagged, and since I don't have the capacity to do these builds manually (as currently done with the PHP 8.0 builds), I've set up an automation which does the builds on GH action runners[1]. This should likely be integrated into php-src or php-sdk, whereyby the latter needs to be forked into a php organization repo as soon as possible, since there is a pending commit regarding the exclusion of yet unsupported PGO training scenarios, and we also should roll a new SDK release, and update some of the bundled tools.
Anyhow, if these PHP 8.1 builds turn out to be good, I'd also like to do the PHP 8.0 builds this way; this would free required capacities on the current build machine (plus save a bit of my time), which is actually supposed to do the PECL extension builds. While these builds are automated, and mostly work well, there are sometimes issues with new releases and the dependency libraries are rarely updated (a lot of these[2] are ancient versions). And although I'm planning to enable snapshot builds when PHP 8.1 enters the beta release cycle (as usual), and to do the mass rebuild after PHP 8.1.0 is released, I won't be able to spend much time to help with resolving issues. In my opinion, it would be beneficial to push the burden of providing Windows builds to the extension maintainers. There are already AppVeyor integrations for several PECL extensions, some of them producing binaries which are basically identical to the PECL builds, and generally Windows CI should be helpful for package maintainers to detect potential issues before new releases. Furthermore, extensions maintainers would be more flexible regarding the supported PHP version (currently, the PECL builds are done for PHP 7.3, 7.4 and 8.0 only). So yes, I'm proposing to stop centralized builds of PECL extensions for Windows in the long run, and also to stop providing prebuilt dependency libraries for PECL extensions. If we do that, we can also sunset the rmtools[3], which are used to provide snapshot builds of php-src (no longer the case for PHP 8.0 due to lack of a dedicated build machine; nightly snapshots are made available by Shivam[4]), and to provide builds of the PECL extensions. Thoughts? [1] <https://github.com/cmb69/php-ftw/> [2] <https://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/deps/> [3] <https://github.com/php/web-rmtools> [4] <https://github.com/shivammathur/php-builder-windows> -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
