Re: Re: Public Tags of Releases
| From: | Johannes Schlüter | Date: | Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:52:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Public Tags of Releases | ||
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On Mi, 2017-11-29 at 15:43 +0100, lists@rhsoft.net wrote:
> Am 29.11.2017 um 15:37 schrieb Johannes Schlüter:
> >
> > On Mi, 2017-11-29 at 12:09 +0100, Jan Ehrhardt wrote:
> > >
> > > FWIW: I am using the zip's at github, like
> > > https://github.com/php/php-src/archive/php-7.2.0.zip
> > Contrary to "official" release tarballs those don't contain
> > generated
> > parsers etc. thus behavior might be different i.e. due to different
> > bison versions being used. (sohuldn't be, but happened in the past)
> > Also they don't contain ready to use configure scripts (for unix-
> > like
> > systems) thus a (Linux/Unix/Mac) user needs right versions of auto
> > tools
> same applies to compilers, compiler flags and system library
> versions
> anyways
>
This is true, but usually has less impact. bison&co historically are
less stable than compiler support for language features we use.
Third party libraries used in extensions are another complex story.
Which is why we bundle some libs.
johannes