On 01/29/2013 12:43 PM, Larry Garfield wrote: > On 1/29/13 11:46 AM, Ralf Lang wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Am 29.01.2013 18:38, schrieb Pierre Joye: >>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Attila Bukor >>> <attila.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I think Ralf's idea is great. A lot of other projects use nightly >>>> builds successfully. I don't think a vbox image would be >>>> necessary as no-one would use nightly builds on a production >>>> environment, >>> >>> It is not about using anything in prod but catch bugs as early as >>> possible in the QA process. >> >> I understand that. Automated distribution packaging of wip code is not >> meant for production but for rapid deployment of "clean state" test >> environments. It's similar to a CI suite. >> >> If there is enough interest in php snapshots as rpm, I could begin >> such a setup on monday. > > If I could run my own VM (that much I can do) and periodically just do > apt-get update php-head, that would lower the barrier to testing new > versions by several orders of magnitude. (Yeah yeah insert RPM vs. Apt > debate here; both are good to have.) That would be *sweet*. +1
Is building from git really that much harder? Yes, it takes a little bit of tweaking to get your configure flags right and getting all the right dev versions of the dependencies installed, but at least on Debian/Ubuntu (since you mentioned apt) you have the quick shortcut of doing: apt-get build-dep php5 which installs everything you should need to build it. I usually keep a little "cn" script around which is just a saved config.nice that I hack on when I am testing stuff. You can see a slightly simplified version of the one I use for 5.5 here: http://lerdorf.com/cn.txt If you don't have a checkout of the tree already, do: git clone -b PHP-5.5 git://git.php.net/php-src.git Not that this actually checks out all the branches, but puts you on the 5.5 branch automatically. You can switch branches without redownloading to test other versions. cd php-src ./buildconf ./cn make make install All done. To check updated versions, just cd into your php-src directory and type: git pull ./buildconf ./cn make make install You may sometimes need to do a "make clean" and for minor changes you can skip the builconf and configure and just make again and hope the make dependency system works. I realize this is slightly more complicated than an apt-get, but pre-building packages that will work with all the combinations of libraries and things out there is a PITA. By building your own you get to choose everything by editing your cn script. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
