Re: Refactoring our IO multiplexing layer

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Chris Wright <daverandom@php.net> wrote: > 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. We have no official list AFAIR, but the documentation's got sheets about specific OS recommandations, at http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.php I agree it could be a nice thing to list OSes we officially support nowadays, OSes we would like to support for PHP6, and then try to make this fit with a possible future lib we would link against. Julien