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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Refactoring our IO multiplexing layer
From: ml@anderiasch.de (Florian Anderiasch)

On 20.06.2014 20:23, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> As long as the system is POSIX and has a mostly sane compiler we will
> support it. We won't be ale to test it but react on feedback we get.
> (overall we have no support guarantees in any way, as we're fully run y
> volunteers who might disappear tomorrow) It's a key property of the
> project and code base that we don't only look at those large scale x64
> Linux deployments but also care for embedded devices etc.
> 
>> This would obviously only apply to the core, PECL extensions would be free
>> to support what they like.
> 
> Well, it's not only PECL but also some core extensions - if your system
> has no libxml2 you can't use PHP's XML features. If your system's libc
> has no (POSIX-compliant) chroot your PHP won't have it. The reminder
> works, though.

Yes,
I wish I'd phrased it as "commonly tested" instead of "officially
supported" operating systems - but the point still stands, we have a
handful that are supposed to work absolutely, all the time. I wouldn't
bet that some of the lesser mainstream ones are tested on every release,
that was where I was hinting at.

I'm all for the revamp, just a bit wary of adding such a big external
library in such a low-level place.

Greetings,
Florian