Re: supported OS/platforms

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

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 ;-).

Ah great! Last time I checked back with Derick the feedback was minimal.

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.

Ok, I probably did not word things optimally. I guess the focus was more on getting more platforms in the test setup.

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.

But the way I read the reports we also get the test results as a "side benefit" including valgrind. regards, Lukas