Re: OCI support in PHP is dead
On 14.07.2011 11:43, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/07/2011 07:16, Victor Sudakov wrote: The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8 is marked as vulnerable. Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now. Now, the only options for getting more up to date support are -- persuading Oracle to release eg. an Oracle Instant Client package for FreeBSD -- somehow being able to use the Linux client software under emulation. I've no idea what Oracle's response to the first option would be, but I suspect their response might well be that they won't get enough return to justify the cost of producing a FreeBSD native client. I suspect getting oracle to create such a client would cost (per user) about half a cent less than replacing the oracle DB would. They're (in)famous for such calculations. The second option looks pretty difficult to me -- making a PHP shared object that links to a Linux shlib but that is itself linked into various PHP applications. This one might be a bit cheaper. The future looks Postgresql shaped to me. Or any other non-yacht-sponsoring DB. //Svein p.s. I've had the pleasure of having dealt with Oracle on several occasions. -- +---+--- /\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X|2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | sv...@stillbilde.net ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | svein-listm...@stillbilde.net Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +---+--- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |sv...@jernhuset.no | RIPE handle:SS16503-RIPE +---+--- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: OCI support in PHP is dead
Matthew Seaman wrote: The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8 is marked as vulnerable. Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now. Now, the only options for getting more up to date support are -- persuading Oracle to release eg. an Oracle Instant Client package for FreeBSD -- somehow being able to use the Linux client software under emulation. I've no idea what Oracle's response to the first option would be, but I suspect their response might well be that they won't get enough return to justify the cost of producing a FreeBSD native client. The second option looks pretty difficult to me -- making a PHP shared object that links to a Linux shlib but that is itself linked into various PHP applications. I suspected that databases/linux-oracle-instantclient-basic is virtually useless. The future looks Postgresql shaped to me. I don't believe so. Our in-house sites use Postgres, but sometimes they have to interact with commercial systems (ERP, NetID etc) and I don't envision commercial vendors moving from Oracle to Postgres any time soon. I even considered running sqlplus via ssh but this is too ugly and not compatible with PHP frameworks. Seems that FreeBSD has lost yet another niche in our company. Which is a real pity because Linux is a pain in the ass and Solaris is not free. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
