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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:40:19 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Firebird - Who are WE ...
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 29.03.2019 at 10:29, Benjamin Eberlei wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 10:20 AM Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote=
:
>
>> Currently building 'interbase' extension has been turned off because
>> it's failing to pass the changes in master for thread safe operation. I
>> understand that it needs someone to work on it and I would love to be
>> able to do that but it's development requirements have moved outside th=
e
>> area that I can cope with. And many people reliant on it are in the sam=
e
>> boat, just as they would not be able to contribute to writing code for
>> Firebird itself. While not perfect, what we have currently does it's jo=
b
>> just as PHP5.2 still works on legacy hosting. PDO hopefully will remain
>> available, but re-writing 20 years worth of code base for that differen=
t
>> way of working has the same problem as finding resources to update the
>> interbase extension.
>
> PHP needs to support thread safety in all its extensions, but that doesn=
't
> mean its required for PECL extensions. You probably run PHP in NTS mode,
> and if the interbase extension supports that, no need to add thread safe=
ty
> support while in PECL. The problem is that every extension in php-src MU=
ST
> support it, because php supports it.
>
> To me it feels you are blowing this issue way out of proportion. Please
> believe everyone trying to tell you over and over again that you have
> nothing to fear from this unbundling.

ext/interbase is indeed broken (i.e. uncompilable) in master (not PHP
7.4 though), since PR #3976[1] has been merged.  It will certainly be
fixed, if the =E2=80=9CUnbundle ext/interbase=E2=80=9D RFC[2] will be decl=
ined; if it
will be accepted it might never get fixed.

[1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3976>
[2] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-and-remove-ext-interbase>

=2D-
Christoph M. Becker