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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:50:55 +0100
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To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ...
From: kontakt@beberlei.de (Benjamin Eberlei)

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 9:41 AM Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> On 29/03/2019 06:05, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> >> News to me is
> >> https://firebirdsql.org/en/news/revival-of-php-driver-development/, but
> >> then many Firebird user groups do not have English as a first language
> >> and just get on with things locally.
> > Well, this sounds good, but are these people going to develop it outside
> > PHP project? Or are they going to maintain the existing extension? So
> > far, it's not clear to me.
>
> As I said 'News to me' ... they certainly have not made any contact on
> the Firebird php list or responded to any requests to help :( I'm not
> totally surprised though as other firebird user groups don't engage
> directly with the 'English' groups.
>
> So it looks like I'm going to be stuck on PHP7.3 from now on ...
>

I think you misunderstand what is happening here.

Many extensions are "just" in PECL and are still maintained there and kept
updated for newer versions. Distribution maintainers like Remi package all
the PECL extensions for every PHP version. Firebird support will surely be
updated to work with 7.4 and released by distributions. It will *just* not
be in php-src anymore.

For example, extensions that are not in php-src and are still widely
available in distributions

Memcache
Memcached
APCu
Imagick
Redis

Also Microsoft maintains all its drivres outside of the php-src tree.


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