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Edin Kadribasic's Blog: New Snapshot Capabilities

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:21:00 -0500

In an effort to provide as much information and code about the PHP builds as possible, Edin Kadribasic (with some help from John Mertic) has created some new abilities for the snapshot build process:

Up till now we provided only the debug pack for the latest snap but several people have asked if it was possible to make one available for each snap that was provided on the site. The PECL bundle and the installer were not provided at all (although pecl4win site provides a build of PECL extensions).

As a result, he's generated and posted these packages for the latest PHP releases:

He also makes a request to other PHP-ers out there for suggestions of how to include these builds on the Downloads page right alongside the normal PHP downloads.

Greg Beaver's Blog: problem with PHP_Archive-based phars tracked to odd unpack() bug

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:02:00 -0600

Users of the PHP_Archive PEAR package should check out Greg Beaver's latest post for some information about the latest version of the package:

I just pushed out a release of PHP_Archive 0.9.1. This release fixes a bug that affects 64-bit users of PHP 5.2 and newer. Basically, the unpack() function does not behave in a predictable way when unpacking large integers. This is a known bug, and is documented at the manual page, although I was unaware of the issue until today.

He gives the example code that would cause the problem and a more correct version that would allow the package to work with all versions of PHP (previously, it would fail due to a bad return from pack). The latest version of the package can be grabbed from it PEAR page or via the "pear" command to grab it automatically.