Re: PHP 4.1.0 Final RC QA Status

On November 21, 2001 06:01 am, Andy Woolley wrote: > > I do not know that we have time this RC to try and find people to > > build with other SAPIs and OSs. However, I feel that we should try > > to get a bit more testing on the various Win platforms. > > I will add Win32/Apache to my list of tests (if not now, at least for > the next RC) but I'm going to need some help and advice from anyone > that knows how to do this as I'm a little unsure what the pitfalls > are going to be. Perhap Daniel, Phil, James or one of the other gents who have a dab hand with Windows could give you advice if you encounter troubles? > I have a few questions about this though. > > First question is. What compiler should I use? AFAIK M$'s Visual C++ product is the compiler to use. However, Chris Newbill recently posted a message about Borland offering their compiler for free -- this might work. (http://www.borland.com/bcppbuilder/freecompiler/) > 2. Do you want these tests doing on Multiple Win32 platforms? If so, > I can probably test Win95, 98, 2000 Pro/Server and XP Pro. That would be great! : ) > 3. Will you want the tests doing from the same build or compiled > separately on each machine? Errr... help... does someone know a sensible answer for why we would do this one way or the other? > That should do it for now :-) > > Regards > Andy. Thanks Andy! :) -- Zak Greant PHP Quality Assurance Team http://qa.php.net/ "We must be the change we wish to see." - M. K. Ghandi