[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       php-gtk-dev
Subject:    Fw: [PHP-GTK-DEV] alpha release stuff
From:       "Steph Fox" <steph () zend ! com>
Date:       2006-04-18 18:18:16
Message-ID: 05c301c6631c$c5294c50$6602a8c0 () foxbox
[Download RAW message or body]

PS If we link our releases with a given PHP release we can also provide a 
link to the PHP museum for the relevant PHP download and PECL bundle...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steph Fox" <steph@zend.com>
To: "Andrei Zmievski" <andrei@gravitonic.com>
Cc: "PHP-GTK dev" <php-gtk-dev@lists.php.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-GTK-DEV] alpha release stuff


> Agreed, but it's other extensions that are the issue here. Particularly 
> given that ext/date is one of those affected!
>
> Anyway the reason it came up at all is because that API change originally 
> went into PHP_5_1 branch, and I expected it to be part of the PHP 5.1.3 
> release. Ilia caught it, and it's now been ifdef'd out until the PHP_5_2 
> branch comes into being, so we don't have the problem to the extent I was 
> anticipating. We just need to release this alpha against PHP 5.5.1 - 
> 5.1.3, and roll the next release against PHP 5.2. (It'll be too confusing 
> to have two versions in the way you're suggesting here. These are Windows 
> users...)
>
>
>> What I meant to say is: the source code of PHP-GTK has nothing to do with 
>> this API bump. It has only to do with Win32 binaries that we "choose" to 
>> distribute to users. In that case, you can make available a version of 
>> PHP-GTK built against PHP 5.1 and then the same version built against PHP 
>> 5.2.
>>
>> -Andrei
>>
>> On Apr 18, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Steph Fox wrote:
>>
>>> Andrei,
>>>
>>> The last Zend API bump came unannounced, and prevented any extension the 
>>> other side of it working with the unofficial binary I'd rolled three 
>>> days prior to it.
>>>
>>> This one will prevent several extensions (com_dotnet, date, dom, mysqli, 
>>> reflection, simplexml, spl, sqlite, tidy, xmlreader, xmlwriter and xsl, 
>>> to name those affected in the core distro) from working with anything 
>>> built against PHP prior to the API change. That poses a real problem for 
>>> win32 users, because PECL binaries are available _either_ with a PHP 
>>> release download OR from pecl4win, which carries the latest snaps for 
>>> each branch.
>>>
>>> In other words, there wasn't a way for users to pick up a copy of the 
>>> PECL bundle that would work with my unofficial binary last time around, 
>>> unless they went back to an earlier PHP release - and that in turn meant 
>>> several PHP bug fixes were missing.
>>>
>>> So darn right it has something to do with the API bump! It was news to 
>>> me that there should've been a midpoint release last September, and I 
>>> had visions of the same mess happening again. In fact it will - the 
>>> difference is that, thanks to the insistence on a midpoint release, we 
>>> can tell people to ONLY use PECL extensions dating from the 5.1 series 
>>> with this alpha, and presumably to ONLY use PECL extensions dating from 
>>> the 5.2 series with our full release.
>>>
>>> - Steph
>>>
>>>
>>>> It has nothing to do with API bump. Why would it?
>>>>
>>>> -Andrei
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:05 PM, Steph Fox wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That'll be primarily because you already knew something I didn't know 
>>>>> until I asked. AKA, the API bump isn't happening until 5.2.0.
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrei Zmievski" 
>>>>> <andrei@gravitonic.com>
>>>>> To: "Steph Fox" <steph@zend.com>
>>>>> Cc: "PHP-GTK dev" <php-gtk-dev@lists.php.net>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:52 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [PHP-GTK-DEV] alpha release stuff
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Apr 14, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Steph Fox wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Andrei, does it make sense to you to keep in line there?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, I don't see why we need to be in line with 5.1.3.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Andrei
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> __________ NOD32 1.1380 (20060125) Information __________
>>>>
>>>> This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system.
>>>> http://www.eset.com
>>>>
>>
>>
>> __________ NOD32 1.1380 (20060125) Information __________
>>
>> This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system.
>> http://www.eset.com
>>
>>
>
> -- 
> PHP-GTK Development Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/)
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>
>
> __________ NOD32 1.1380 (20060125) Information __________
>
> This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system.
> http://www.eset.com
>
> 

-- 
PHP-GTK Development Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]