[Ming-dev] Re: [ming-fun] attachMovie in ming?/Important requests regarding Ming

[Major A <an...@us...>]

> So far there are people focussed on the C part and the PHP and Perl
> extension working on this version.
> Therefore your help in improving the autoconf/automake stuff would be
> very much appreciated.

I have part of the automake/autoconf running on the current CVS tree
(written from scratch). If includes the C and PHP parts right now. C++
should be trivial to add, not so sure about Perl and Python. I'll send
you the updated files once I have everything ready (the CVS code isn't
really going to change in that period :-) ).

> Let me know if you're interested in obtaining the current sources and/or
> contributing some help to this project.

I'd love to get a tarball, if you have it handy.

I think ming should be handled in a single CVS tree, single
branch. There should be a regular freeze-and-release cycle, which
gives people the opportunity to download tested tarballs that are
pretty up-to-date. This is the way it's done in SANE, and it works
despite the fact that SANE deals with hardware drivers and a single
person can usually only test one or two of them. New experimental
features (like widechar support) should first be made optional (with a
configure option that defaults to "off").

Now that I have a build system for the PHP extension, I went on to
find out where the segfault occurs. Well, it's not that easy:

1. Segfaults occur much much more often when running PHP as an Apache
   module than when running it as a CGI.

2. Running PHP in gdb doesn't produce any segfault at all.

3. Compiling any of the code with checkergcc ruins the PHP interface
   because it prefixes all symbols. I guess not even recompiling PHP
   with checkergcc would help here.

I guess something (ming, or PHP?) needs some source code auditing...

Good night, I'll do the other extensions tomorrow...

  Andras

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