hi everyone i'm new to this list so please be patient with me (but not too patient ;-)).
i am currently a contractor for a pretty big it company that is migrating all its php sites to oracle 9i. since we ran into some large problems related to character sets and the way the oci library handles enviroment setup in a shared environment, we have agreed to write new functions that expose new functionality in oracle's oci in php. we're talking about a mere 2 new functions that can't be used in oracle 8's oci. now my questions are: -should i fork the oci8 extension into a new one (oci9 or so) that includes these functions and all other (older) functions with modified names, and submit it as a new extension, or -just submit a patch for ext/oci8 that adds these two functions and add a switch that turns them on or off depending on what oci lib version was found during a build process? furtheron, is there anyone out there already working on an oci9 extension? anyway, thanks for reading. if there's any interest, i can shed some light on a few details of the problems forcing us to do this. cu, Abdul-Kareem Abo-Namous -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
