Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:101205 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37141 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2017 14:52:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Nov 2017 14:52:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=johannes@schlueters.de; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=johannes@schlueters.de; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain schlueters.de from 84.19.169.162 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: johannes@schlueters.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 84.19.169.162 mail.experimentalworks.net Received: from [84.19.169.162] ([84.19.169.162:47050] helo=mail.experimentalworks.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 8C/39-57104-899CE1A5 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:52:09 -0500 Received: from kuechenschabe.fritz.box (ppp-46-244-173-216.dynamic.mnet-online.de [46.244.173.216]) by mail.experimentalworks.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D373369907; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:52:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <1511967125.2219.30.camel@schlueters.de> To: "lists@rhsoft.net" , internals@lists.php.net Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:52:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: <76fb1c89-0514-f369-2bdc-29a9f9748282@rhsoft.net> References: <1511966257.2219.24.camel@schlueters.de> <76fb1c89-0514-f369-2bdc-29a9f9748282@rhsoft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Public Tags of Releases From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=) On Mi, 2017-11-29 at 15:43 +0100, lists@rhsoft.net wrote: > Am 29.11.2017 um 15:37 schrieb Johannes Schlüter: > > > > On Mi, 2017-11-29 at 12:09 +0100, Jan Ehrhardt wrote: > > > > > > FWIW: I am using the zip's at github, like > > > https://github.com/php/php-src/archive/php-7.2.0.zip > > Contrary to "official" release tarballs those don't contain > > generated > > parsers etc. thus behavior might be different i.e. due to different > > bison versions being used. (sohuldn't be, but happened in the past) > > Also they don't contain ready to use configure scripts (for unix- > > like > > systems) thus a (Linux/Unix/Mac) user needs right versions of auto > > tools > same applies to compilers, compiler flags and system library > versions  > anyways > This is true, but usually has less impact. bison&co historically are less stable than compiler support for language features we use. Third party libraries used in extensions are another complex story. Which is why we bundle some libs. johannes