Mark Dastmalchi-Round

Mark Dastmalchi-Round

I’m a DevOps architect, musician, animal lover and all-round geek. If it’s got shiny lights on it, makes loud noises or purrs/wags its tail when you stroke it, I’m all for it. When I’m not writing code or fiddling with computers for a living, I produce my own music and provide the low-end rumble for my band in West Sussex.

PHP 4.4.0 packages ready for testing

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Note : This page may contain outdated information and/or broken links; some of the formatting may be mangled due to the many different code-bases this site has been through in over 20 years; my opinions may have changed etc. etc.

My new PHP packages are ready for testing at the usual place. They are taken from the new 4.4.0 release - the full release announcement is available on the PHP site.

This release is primarily a bug fix over the 4.3.x series, but the ABI has changed, breaking compatibility with 3rd party PHP extensions, hence the middle digit incrementing. As with the previous 4.3.11 testing packages, these are using the new “modular” packaging approach - details of this are in my previous blog entry here. Please post any feedback or bug reports etc. - I’d like these to be really well tested before making the move out to the mirrors.

As with last time, the core packages are mod_php, the extensions are all php4_xyz, and there is also a “bundle” package - php4-4.4.0-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz. This just contains dependencies for all packages and Apache 1, emulating the behaviour of the current package; giving the user a complete PHP installation with all extensions enabled and activated in Apache.

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