Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
- interbase
- fbsql
- sybase and sybase_ct
I think moving fbsql is quite reasonable. However interbase and
sybase I do
not agree with.
Who will maintain them? Who can we ask when there is issues (besides
the obvious ones)?
These extension seem widely used enough that we have to make it an
effort to support them. Removing them is removing a key feature our user
base experts to find. Now for PHP6 I see this a bit differently,
especially provided we have decent support for these databases via PDO.
Apart from the problems created by changes made to the interbase driver in the
5.1 and early 5.2 cycle ( the 64 bit version of which STILL has not been
repaired :( ) the driver still works fine with modern builds of Firebird so
there as been no need to improve on it. Those of us who use it have not been
persuaded that PDO has any advantage as yet, especially when you add ADOdb in
as a back end, so there is NOT a suitable version of PDO for
interbase/firebird and no one is working on THAT, so PLEASE do not remove the
one package that is working well :(
As yet we have not identified any new functions in Firebird 2.1 that can not
still be accessed via current driver, so there has not even been a need to
spend time building an environment in which we can compile our own copies. The
binary versions supplied in Linux and Windows simply work.
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