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Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:12:44 +0200
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Subject: Re: 5.2 interruptions
From: r.korving@xit.nl ("Ron Korving")

Marcus,

Zend: __toString() Done (marcus)

Does this mean that finally __toString acts like the whole world would want 
it to? Can it finally be true? :)

Ron


"Marcus Boerger" <helly@php.net> schreef in bericht 
news:321302981.20060512024659@marcus-boerger.de...
> Hello internals,
>
>  i am now done with most bigger parts of 5.2 Todo and the remainder
> is a bunch of fixes engine wise some folks already found during the
> MFH phase. Right now my test results look like (see below). Whilethis
> looks quite good on the first glance it is actually a big problem that
> only have around 2500 tests for a beast as big as PHP.
>
>  A thing i am personally wondering about is that som many people
> complained about interruptions on this development tree. Actually i
> tried all i could to keep this interruptions as low as possible. For
> example besides windows all built-in stuff was at least always
> compilable. The biggest problems extension wise where two things.
> First finding all cases of overloaded iterators since their API has
> chnaged. This is a problem since the function pointers hide behind
> tables and conversons, so i could not grep for them. The other major
> issue was that for PDO we planned to MFH a bunch of stuff from HEAD
> while unfortunatley PDO's HEAD is completley out of synch with separate
> development in 5.1/5.2. Thus taking care of PDO had to wait until
> the rest had settled down. Now the real question is if ppl see the
> 5.2 already as something that goes for production quality or if
> suddenly windows became a major developmment platform without me
> noticing it. In the first case it is my bad, because i got our time
> line wrong. In the second case it is still my bad, but just tell me
> now so i can kick my windows compiler next tiem i do bigger changes.
> Anyways sorry if you feel the interruptions have been too annoying.
>
> Back on the first topic: tests. While i was still happily MFHing
> people complained about a newly detected behavior change that nobody
> detected in HEAD so far, see Zend/tests/objects_001.phpt. I never
> intended to change that behavior. It was simply a sideeffect of MFHing
> new stuff and obviously we have to fix the behavior in both HEAD
> and 5.2. Anyways i ask everybody to write more tests so that we can
> figure out such things earlier in the future, hopefully already before
> committing since everybody should do make test before commit anyways.
>
> Last but not least i ask to provide tests for stuff we do not cover
> right now. In case you are an extension developer you can most easily
> go to http://gcov.php.net and check your extensions for not executed
> c code. As the developer you will know how to provide a test for the
> identified areas.
>
> One good idea came up already. That is we could extend the run-tests
> facility to handle multiple php versions per .phpt script. That way
> we can keep track of behavior changes easily. This would for example
> be done by extending the current block identifier by a version compare
> string. E.g. right now expected output is identified by "--EXPECT--".
> With the version identifier it would look like: "--[>=5.2]:EXPECT--"
> and "--[<5.2]:EXPECT--".
>
> Once again sorry if you felt the interruptions too annoying.
>
> best regards
> marcus
>
> p.s.: todo can be found here: http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP52
>
>
> TEST RESULT SUMMARY
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Exts skipped    :   21
> Exts tested     :   68
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Number of tests : 2591              2251
> Tests skipped   :  340 ( 13.1%) --------
> Tests warned    :    0 (  0.0%) (  0.0%)
> Tests failed    :   19 (  0.7%) (  0.8%)
> Tests passed    : 2232 ( 86.1%) ( 99.2%)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Time taken      :  569 seconds
> =====================================================================
>
> =====================================================================
> FAILED TEST SUMMARY
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> comparing objects to other types [Zend/tests/objects_001.phpt]
> APC: apc_store/fetch with strings [ext/apc/tests/apc_001.phpt]
> APC: apc_store/fetch with objects [ext/apc/tests/apc_002.phpt]
> APC: apc_store/fetch with objects [ext/apc/tests/apc_003.phpt]
> Test 1: Accessing single node [ext/dom/tests/dom001.phpt]
> Test 2: getElementsByTagName() / getElementsByTagNameNS() 
> [ext/dom/tests/dom002.phpt]
> Test 7: DTD tests [ext/dom/tests/dom007.phpt]
> iconv stream filter [ext/iconv/tests/iconv_stream_filter.phpt]
> mb_strlen() [ext/mbstring/tests/mb_strlen.phpt]
> mysqli fetch float values [ext/mysqli/tests/010.phpt]
> mysqli fetch mixed values [ext/mysqli/tests/011.phpt]
> mysqli fetch mixed values 2 [ext/mysqli/tests/012.phpt]
> mysqli_bind_result (SHOW) [ext/mysqli/tests/045.phpt]
> PDO PgSQL Large Objects [ext/pdo_pgsql/tests/large_objects.phpt]
> Bug #31422 No Error-Logging on SoapServer-Side 
> [ext/soap/tests/bugs/bug31422.phpt]
> Test array_diff and array_diff_assoc behaviour 
> [ext/standard/tests/array/007.phpt]
> Test of the *intersect* bunch of functions (both assoc and non-assoc) 
> [ext/standard/tests/array/array_intersect_1.phpt]
> date_sunrise() and date_sunset() functions 
> [ext/standard/tests/general_functions/sunfuncts.phpt]
> Bug #22224 (implode changes object references in array) 
> [ext/standard/tests/strings/bug22224.phpt]
> =====================================================================
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Marcus