Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: A problem related to php 5.4.10 and possibly others

[Johannes Schlüter]

On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 17:19 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> I agree that Oracle has done the Solaris market no favours and were the
> result of the death of OpenSolaris however, having said all that, Solaris 
> is a SUSv3 compliant commercial UNIX and thus one would think that
> open source code written to comply with some, or perhaps all, of the 
> typical code standards, would be portable and would "just work".
> 
> Those old Solaris servers are still out there churning away. 
> 
> As for the odd test failing, I see this : 

As I use Solaris on one of my primary machines I went through some of
those tests in the past. The basic issue here is that no standard
defines the exact error messages, but most tests are written on Linux
systems with en_US locales. Other systems provide slightly different
error messages which doesn't have a functional difference but makes the
tests fail. Some operating systems provide different locales, behaving
differently, too. Also some tests, test unpecified or wrong
implementations by Linux libraries.

As Solaris 11 switched more to Open Source libraries in some areas
instead of having commercial clones (well technically GNU libs are often
clones and Solaris libs were based on "original" Unix libraries...)
this improved a bit from that side.

Please mind that PHP is developed mostly on a volunteer basis and the
work is focused on primarily used platforms. If you want to provide
productive help we'd love having people going through those and provide
fixes for overly specific tests and identifying "broken" PHP features.

johannes

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Johannes Schlüter, MySQL Engineering, ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co KG
The above message represents my personal opinion.