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Subject: My musings on... a Solaris test platform
From: ab5602@wayne.edu (Rob Thompson)


Hello,

I've been thinking about Solaris support for PHP and some of the
difficulty surrounding reproducing bugs under different Solaris OS
versions, not to mention OS patch versions.

I work at a University that heavily uses the PHP code base and have
personally been actively working at trying to better the code in support
of Solaris quirks/bugs.  Would the following be a benefit to PHP
developers, or not really worth the time, or somewhere in-between?

A set of systems with up-to-date OSs, logins and GDB available to PHP
developers to test and debug PHP under the following OSs:

- Solaris 8 x86
- Solaris 8 sparc
- Solaris 9 x86
- Solaris 9 sparc
- Solaris 10 x86
- Solaris 10 sparc

I could try to convince the powers that be to allow me to setup this
environment, if there would be interest and use.

Thanks,
-Rob