Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2816 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 19384 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2003 08:08:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.zend.com) (192.117.235.230) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 26 Jun 2003 08:08:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 29604 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2003 08:08:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO zeev-laptop.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Jun 2003 08:08:25 -0000 Reply-To: zeev@zend.com Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030626110544.052fbca0@localhost> X-Sender: zeev@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:08:13 +0300 To: Sebastian Bergmann Cc: internals@lists.php.net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Engine selection on Win32 From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski) At 23:58 25/06/2003, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: >Sascha Schumann wrote: > > Here is a patch which automates the engine selection for VC++. > > Works here, too. > > But is this really necessary? I fail to see the point of having to > check out both versions of the Zend Engine twice when doing > > cvs co -r HEAD php-src > > and > > cvs co -r PHP_4_3 php-src > > for instance. > > Is there any technical problem, that I don't see, with the way we > handled this before (havin php4 and php5 aliased that select the > correct {Zend|ZendEngine2} CVS module)? I second that. There's no reason not to keep the php5 alias, and no reason not to tell people that the way to checkout php4 is cvs -r PHP_$ php4. The Win32 diff may work, but it certainly is ugly. Zeev