Finally Johannes Schlüter baked a first alpha-tarball for PHP 5.3. The new version contains a huge amount of new features, like closures, namespaces and late static binding. Such a huge amount requires thorough testing: if you are using a PHP application you would like to see fully working with our brand new version or you are developing a PHP application, this is your chance to make sure everything will go smoothly. If you are a web hosting provider, do your performance benchmarks now!
If you are, accidentally, using the Gentoo Linux distribution, I have something for you: in my personal PHP overlay you can find an ebuild for PHP 5.3.0_alpha1. A few warnings: currently, ext/fileinfo does not compile because of #45636 and of course I did not test all possible USE-flag combinations. If you experience problems with it, just leave a comment here.
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smf68 supposes:
published on 2008|08|05, 16:32hThanks a lot for your ebuild! It works fine, there is just a little problem with the 70_mod_php5.conf it installs in /etc/apache2/modules.d
Where it says “AddDirectoryIndex index.php index.phtml” it should actually be “DirectoryIndex index.php index.phtml”, shouldn’t it? At least it worked for me, then.
Great stuff ;)
Lars Strojny supposes:
published on 2008|08|05, 20:15hThanks. This was an apache 2.2 vs. 2.0 issue. Fixed in Subversion.
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