Re: PHP 4.1.0 Final RC QA Status

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Andy Woolley wrote: >> I do not know that we have time this RC to try and find people to build >> with other SAPIs and OSs. However, I feel that we should try to get a >> bit more testing on the various Win platforms. > >I will add Win32/Apache to my list of tests (if not now, at least for the >next RC) but I'm going to need some help and advice from anyone that knows >how to do this as I'm a little unsure what the pitfalls are going to be. > >I have a few questions about this though. > >First question is. What compiler should I use? > >2. Do you want these tests doing on Multiple Win32 platforms? If so, I can >probably test Win95, 98, 2000 Pro/Server and XP Pro. > >3. Will you want the tests doing from the same build or compiled separately >on each machine? I think we should be testing the pre-compiled binaries which will later on become the release for win32 platforms. As we have seen many times before, there have been build-problems in the release which were not caught by tests. Whoever builds it should build also RC builds. --Jani