Re: supported OS/platforms

Lukas Smith wrote: > As per the release check list that Derick and Ilia wrote up [1] we now > have something called "primary testers". This is a list of projects per > php branch that will get directly notified of php RC's. We have one for > PHP 4.x [2], 5.x [3] and 6.x [4]. I disagree with you in that respect, I received a fair amount of input from our test projects. One of the responses lead to a resolution of a nasty bug affecting smarty templating system and through it the project being tested. If we get A LOT of feedback it means our release is badly broken ;-). > Now as far as I know the level of success has not been all to great, but > atleast it should push some responsibility to the given projects if we > happen to have a release snafu. Maybe we can make this more high > profile, by having some buttons "official php primary tester", you know > for the warm fuzzy feeling ;-) I think it is fine as is. > Anyways I remember some discussions about this on internals (or maybe it > was a PEAR meeting) about what platforms to support. Obviously this is a > question on what the developers focus and also on what we test on. I see no reason to add limits on the supported platforms, the bottom line if you can compile PHP on your platform of choice it is technically supported. > Especially with the emergence of the gcov setup [5][6] we also have a > nice setup to make the testing automated with pretty reports and even > visual gadgets. gcov shows code coverage it does not tell if you the code is working or not. If anything it is a tool to help devise tests that would examine as much code behavior as possible. Ilia