Re: Refactoring our IO multiplexing layer

On 19 June 2014 08:05, Florian Anderiasch <ml@anderiasch.de> wrote: > Hey, > I like the idea and don't want to rain on your parade, but please do an > *extensive* cross-OS check beforehand, I do remember some problems with > this kind of stuff on NetBSD/OpenBSD for example (not in PHP, > elsewhere), and PHP supports a lot of OSs I haven't used in 10 years or > not at all. AFAIK both libevent and libuv have quite a good support, but > just after a quick look into the manual (Do we even have a definitive > list of supported OS there?) - Solaris, Illumos, HP-UX... no clue here. Node.js (i.e. libuv) is available for all the common operating systems that PHP is used with, including Solaris and every BSD flavour I can think of. It's also possible to build Node on SmartOS, so Illumos is presumably viable. It doesn't seem to support HP-UX at the moment, but this fairly old thread [1] suggests that Joyent believe it's possible, and I'm sure they would be open to outside help to make it happen. You are absolutely right though, any major change in architecture such as this requires checks that we won't break support for an OS where PHP is used a lot - this is likely not to be the only such change that will be suggested for PHP6, so maybe job #0 should be to compile an "official" list of supported operating systems, rather than the anecdotal "hey, I made it work here" system that currently seems to exist for some of the less common systems. Or maybe there already is one and I just can't find it... [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/F2-AtY-YkEw