Re: Reproducible Builds

On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 01:48, Matthew Weier O'Phinney < mweierophinney@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 5:28 PM Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > > On 28 November 2023 17:28:18 GMT, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> > > wrote: > > > > >While we could probably replace __DATE__ and __TIME__ with > > SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH [3] [4], I cannot help but wonder whether having the > date > > and time when the executable was built in the executable is actually > > useful. How attached are we to having the date and time of the build in > the > > output of phpinfo(), "php -i", etc.? > > > > It is really useful for the development versions of PHP. Knowing whether > > your are running a PHP-dev from last week or last month is important. > > > Would Marco's suggestion of using a git hash solve that? You'd then get > both a reproducible build AND know when/what it was generated from. > Also, refs have a timestamp :-) Marco Pivetta https://mastodon.social/@ocramius https://ocramius.github.io/