Ola Ferenc, I'm willing to resurrect the development, how can I do it? Right now I'm having trouble in making a simple patch applied...
I do have professional reasons for supporting it, one of our major clients do use MSSQL databases accessed from linux servers, and I don't see any other fit replacement for it -- ext/mssql is also barely supported, and I really wouldn't like to go for ODBC... The option would be stop using MSSQL? I know that very few people do use this extension, even less in production code (it does have a huge EXPERIMENTAL in the docs page...), but now it's much easier to have PHP+MSSQL, and Sybase SQL Anywhere is also available under linux (with a private native PHP extension). Both are revamping their products, and in cloud environments it's a simple choice the flavor of the database to use. Shouldn't PHP have any kind of support for it? I'll try to make the same question to both Microsoft and Sybase, but right now I can't get any attention from PHP developers to this issue. Personally, I do would like to contribute to PHP -- and I guess this is my chance. I'm willing to take it all: bug tracking, documentation and development (should I do user support?). Is it possible? Thanks for the attention, Guilherme Capilé On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2013.04.26. 20:04, "Guilherme Capilé" <cap...@tecnodz.com> ezt írta: > > >> >> Ola, >> >> my name is Guilherme Capilé, I'm a Brazilian developer and I'd like to >> contribute to the PHP-SRC. Right now, specifically to the PDO DBLIB >> (ext/pdo_dblib) extension. I've already submitted a bug, a patch and a >> pull request, a month ago, but haven't got any responses so far -- >> looks like no one else is interested in this extension. The last time >> it was actively developed was almost two years ago, and the bug I >> mentioned makes this extension unusable as of PHP 5.4+ (it was >> introduced on PHP 5.4 back at 2010). >> >> I'd also like to enable other features available on other PDO >> extensions, like driver/session attributes (DBLIB has none), and >> resolve some of the bugs listed for it, but don't know if such >> contributions are welcome. >> >> If I can contribute, I'd like to just know how, and if the former >> developers Stanley Sufficool, Felipe Pena, Rasmus Lerdorf among others >> have any thoughts and considerations on future progress. >> >> Otherwise, if this extension is marked for death, please let me know >> so that I can search for alternatives. >> >> I already e-mailed the PDO list, and the only response I got was a >> suggestion to email this list instead... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Guilherme Capilé >> -- >> Tecnodesign • • • • • • • • • >> >> [55 21] 4105-1033 >> http://www.tecnodz.com >> cap...@tecnodz.com >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > would be nice if we could either resurrect the development or start > discouraging users from picking it up for new projects because imo it is > just barely kept alive, and getting further and further behind both in terms > of features and stability. -- Tecnodesign • • • • • • • • • [55 21] 4105-1033 http://www.tecnodz.com cap...@tecnodz.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
