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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] My musings on... a Solaris test platform
From: nlopess@php.net ("Nuno Lopes")

It would be interesting, yes. My university has been discontinuing the 
Solaris servers and now I only have access to an ancient Solaris 7 server.
Even more interesting would be to get your patches to fix those bugs :)

Thanks,
Nuno


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Thompson" <ab5602@wayne.edu>
To: <internals@lists.php.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 3:36 AM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] My musings on... a Solaris test platform


>
> 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