PHP 5.3.0-dev - first work

[Remi Collet]

Hi,

Some have perhaps already read 
http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2008/07/18/PHP-530-dev

I start working on this major release and I hope upstream will be ready 
for Fedora 10... (Joe, any idea/goal about this ?) or Fedora 11.

First comments :

- ncurses extension is no more part of main php and will need to be 
packaged as php-pecl-ncurses (package is ready)
See : http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=14369

- phar is now part of main php, so php-phar (or php-common ?) will have 
to obsolete php-pecl-phar

- gd/t1lib : what about enabling this option as dependency is available 
in Fedora ? (we could have done this for a while, i don't find any 
discussion about this in the archive).

- XML extensions (dom, xmlreader, xmlwriter) doesn't load.
See : http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45557

- pgsql extension doesn't load, seems to be another visibility issue 
with regfree/php_regfree function. Need some work.

- make test : all test fails. Need some work.

- pear 1.7.2 is required to build extension : not a problem, already in 
Rawhide.


Regards.
Remi.

[Remi Collet]

Remi Collet a écrit :

>  - pgsql extension doesn't load, seems to be another visibility
> issue 
>  with regfree/php_regfree function. Need some work. 
See : http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45564

To be continued...

[Joe Orton]

Hi Remi!

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:06:32AM +0200, Remi Collet wrote:
>  Some have perhaps already read  
>  http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2008/07/18/PHP-530-dev
>
>  I start working on this major release and I hope upstream will be ready  
>  for Fedora 10... (Joe, any idea/goal about this ?) or Fedora 11. 
Awesome work, thanks a lot!  Last I checked upstream said the aim was 
for 5.3 to be out in September/October timescale.  The F10 feature 
freeze is August 19th, so this is probably going to be a F11 thing.  

>  - phar is now part of main php, so php-phar (or php-common ?) will
> have  
>  to obsolete php-pecl-phar 
I think php-common will be appropriate for phar unless it's a really 
huge binary.

>  - gd/t1lib : what about enabling this option as dependency is
> available  
>  in Fedora ? (we could have done this for a while, i don't find any  
>  discussion about this in the archive). 
I hadn't see that; yeah, no reason why not to enable in in Fedora right 
now.  Feel free to commit the necessary changes :)

>  - make test : all test fails. Need some work. 
Are there ABI changes in 5.3?  ABI changes will break "make test" if the 
patch to force use of "php -n" throughout the test suite is not complete 
(which it usually isn't), and old 5.2.x system .so files get loaded.

>  - pear 1.7.2 is required to build extension : not a problem, already
> in  
>  Rawhide. 
And thanks for doing that too ;)

Regards,

joe

[Remi Collet]

Joe Orton a écrit :
>  Are there ABI changes in 5.3?  ABI changes will break "make
> test" if the 
>  patch to force use of "php -n" throughout the test suite is not complete 
>  (which it usually isn't), and old 5.2.x system .so files get loaded.
>     
Yes, you're right.
php -n is there and doesn't load /etc/php.ini but still load 
/etc/php.d/*.ini...

So test suite run fine in mock only :
=====================================================================
TEST RESULT SUMMARY
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Exts skipped    :   48
Exts tested     :   32
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Number of tests : 7314              4523
Tests skipped   : 2791 ( 38.2%) --------
Tests warned    :    5 (  0.1%) (  0.1%)
Tests failed    :   14 (  0.2%) (  0.3%)
Expected fail   :    3 (  0.0%) (  0.1%)
Tests passed    : 4501 ( 61.5%) ( 99.5%)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Time taken      :  189 seconds
=====================================================================

Remi.

[Remi Collet]

Some news

Bug closed (visibility issues) :
http://bugs.php.net/45557
http://bugs.php.net/45564
http://bugs.php.net/45572

Fileinfo is now enabled by default (v 1.0.5 bundled) as part of php.
So will osbolete php-pecl-Fileinfo

But : http://bugs.php.net/45636

A new SQLite3 extension available.
But, if build as shared, doesn't load (again, visibility issue)
Need work / bug report.


Remi.

[Remi Collet]

Remi Collet a écrit :
>  A new SQLite3 extension available.
>  But, if build as shared, doesn't load (again, visibility issue)
>  Need work / bug report. 
No a bug.
This extension requires Sqlite >= 3.5.9 (available in rawhide)

[Remi Collet]

Some news

5.3.0 alpha1 is out !

Internationalization extension is now bundled with PHP (never released 
as a pecl extension on Fedora project). I've add a sub-package php-intl 
as it add a new dependencies on libicu : http://fr2.php.net/intl

sqlite3 extension cannot be build with system sqlite package which 
doesn't provide a needed build option.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/457433

As usually, F-9 test rpm available on my little repo are weekly updated 
(5.3.0alpha2-dev, snapshot 200808020430)

Remi