Re: [Astlinux-users] astlinux develope enviroment and 0.45

[Darrick H. <dha...@dj...>]

Niklas Larsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have successfully done my own compilation of astlinux with the help of dev env. But why is it php5 in the official 0.45 and php4 in the dev env? I thought that 0.45 was made from the dev env. Is there any other changes / differences?
>
> Second question is, how to make a vmware version of astlinux? I like the idea of running it without having to burn a cd for every change i make... (my computer can't boot from usb - it's a shame...)
>   
Perhaps you downloaded trunk instead of the 0.4 branch.  Trunk has not 
been updated to php5 (yet).  Since the next php5 release is in RC2 
status, I'd imagine Kristian is going to wait until that is released 
before updating trunk.  The reason we went with a pre-release version of 
php5 rather than stay with old php4 in the 0.4 branch is two-fold.  
First, there were significant security risks with the version of php 
that was included.  Older versions of php (including the released 
php-5.2.1) did not cross-compile without additional patching.  We 
decided that our time and effort were better spent elsewhere and that if 
we can remove the patches, it makes maintaining alot easier.

Unless you want to be on the bleeding edge, I would recommend grabbing 
the 0.4 branch from SVN rather than trunk.  I would guess that in the 
next month or so trunk will stabilize enough that it would be ready for 
more people to try.  At this point, you're better off starting with 
something that is changing less than trunk.

Darrick

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