Thanks Brian, I sincerely feel that many PHP developers have their hands tied in several ways. The least of which being that the reported bugs are often not immediately and easily reproducible in a sane build environment that is easily accessible to the developer.
To a developer who is voluntarily tasked with fixing a bug, their entire environment is called into question or is suspect as being inexact. This same issue does not exist for the bug reporter, who may post reports with verbiage such as "look! look! it doesn't work!" and demand restitution, back-pay, pay-back and public reprimand when the often quirky, obscure, un-reproducible fix is not immediately submitted to a time-tested and stable code base. Both sides are understandable, however, it would be a benefit to both parties to have some immediately accessible environments that are up-to-date, hopelessly obscure in their own right, and offer the developer a sane benchmark with which to base a prognosis. Again, this idea may be a waste of time if this situation does not exist, but I think it's workable. -Rob Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Rob Thompson wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I've been thinking about Solaris support for PHP and some of the >> difficulty surrounding reproducing bugs under different Solaris OS >> versions, not to mention OS patch versions. > > If you cant get traction feeding Sun-specific patches upstream, you > should you should work with the Pkgsrc people. Pkgsrc can save Solaris > (in that Stabbing Westward sense). See: > > http://pkgsrc.habel.name/packages/SunOS-5.9-sparc/lang/ > > php-5.2.3nb2.tgz 2007-Jun-10 11:53:47 3.2M application/x-tgz > php-5.2.3nb3.tgz 2007-Sep-27 16:54:00 3.2M application/x-tgz > > http://www.pkgsrc.org/ > > They're experts at resolving toolchain and portability problems. > They're also not likely to turn down access to hardware for bulk-build > machines. > > Oh and bug reports wont get closed as "Won't fix" :) > > ~BAS -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
