Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44008 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26487 invoked from network); 16 May 2009 09:31:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 May 2009 09:31:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=rasmus@lerdorf.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=rasmus@lerdorf.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lerdorf.com from 209.85.220.220 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: rasmus@lerdorf.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.220.220 mail-fx0-f220.google.com Received: from [209.85.220.220] ([209.85.220.220:64896] helo=mail-fx0-f220.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 2D/92-12195-7F78E0A4 for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 05:31:36 -0400 Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so2583323fxm.23 for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 02:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.168.5 with SMTP id v5mr2804703muo.77.1242466292850; Sat, 16 May 2009 02:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Macintosh-401.local (socks1.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.54.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm417787mum.5.2009.05.16.02.31.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 16 May 2009 02:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A0E87EA.2090705@lerdorf.com> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 11:31:22 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Macintosh/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre Joye CC: Lester Caine , PHP internals References: <4A0E753E.607@lsces.co.uk> <4A0E7F65.7080002@lsces.co.uk> <4A0E8091.5020405@lerdorf.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Current problems with PHP5.3 testing From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf) Pierre Joye wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >> The fact is that we have only a handful of people who do any sort of >> Windows work while we have hundreds of volunteers for other parts of the >> project. Unless we get more volunteers interesting in working on >> Windows-related stuff, you are always going to see a gap between Windows >> and the rest of the world. > > We have many people testing Windows, it is much better now than for a > year or so. But we do not even have a handful of people taking care of > the firebird extension itself (testing or maintaining it). Testing pre-built stuff, sure. But building extensions and making them work on Windows is still quite rare. Not that I am criticizing, I don't do it either. I have absolutely zero interest in that platform. -Rasmus