Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:104888 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 13348 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2019 15:43:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail4.serversure.net) (185.153.204.204) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 23 Mar 2019 15:43:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 17200 invoked by uid 89); 23 Mar 2019 12:36:27 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 17188, pid: 17196, t: 0.0372s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.7?) (lester@lsces.co.uk@81.138.11.136) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 23 Mar 2019 12:36:27 -0000 To: PHP internals References: <2f7acce4-69dd-d98b-6f86-1110e3589c4b@lsces.co.uk> Message-ID: <14e38736-deee-1930-e4eb-21651beebb13@lsces.co.uk> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 12:36:25 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ... From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 23/03/2019 12:05, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > 80% of this posting is more a personal blog of how you (not "we") have > been interacting with the PHP community (as in the PHP.net community > specifically). What you should have done was to reply to either me or > Dan in the RFC thread with a one liner: "I mean 'We' as in X", that > would have been it. We as in the people who rally around when we need to to protect the things we think are important. There are more people today reliant on elements like Firebird than there were 20+ years ago and to be honest if you kick the interbase driver into PECL we will carry on using it anyway, but YES it needs some love - from someone who can navigate around just how resources have been changed in PHP7. The sort of cooperation we had while keeping several extensions available on windows in the past. I'm perfectly happy that I am not the only person using PHP with Firebird .... and reliant on it continuing to be available! Now to get back to working out why Nikita's patch does not work in 7.2.16 ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk