Hi all, there has been some discussion about this in a GH issue[1].
TL;DR: building ext/ldap against Oracle LDAP had been supported, and is theoretically still supported, but is apparently broken for a while. The Oracle LDAP implementation is part of Oracle Instant Client, and uses an older LDAP API; apparently, there are no plans for updating this. So users are almost certainly better off to build against OpenLDAP (and if they need OCI8, to build that as shared library, and load after ext/ldap). However, so far no further steps have been taken. Since it appears that there will be a PHP 8.5, I think it makes sense to deprecate building against Oracle LDAP (instead of silently dropping in PHP 9). I should note that the ldap_connect_wallet() function, available only as of PHP 8.3[2] would also be part of the deprecation, as well as other existing Oracle LDAP specific features. Thoughts? [1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/15051> [2] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_functions_with_overloaded_signatures#ldap_connect> Christoph
