Re: new port

Fab Wash wrote:

Hello all, i'm trying to port php on a Nonstop Kernel system (Tandem/Compaq OSS/Posix compliant), and have a few questions to start with. I'm just trying to get it to compile (which is not a simple task!), and notice an enormous amount of bad casting in the code. For example: int joe = (ulong) *p; Is that kind of coding historically bad coding that was never changed,

I totally agree. We need to clean up type usage and casting mess.

or is there a reason behind this?

Just a historical reason, I suppose. You can use compiler option to surpress warnings for now, I guess.

Also, who has control of the configure.in file? If I wanted to setup configure internal options for my system who should I contact?

Send patch to php-dev. No single person is controlling it. AFAIK.

And last question, is there a suite of QA tests that a new version of php must go through before being approved?

It's not perfect nor complete, please read README.TESTING. Please make sure you read README.CVS-RULES, CODING_STANDARDS, README.SUBMITTING_PATCH and other documents. And most importantly, please work with HEAD branch. We'll ask patch for it anyway. -- Yasuo Ohgaki