Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:29678 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12775 invoked by uid 1010); 23 May 2007 06:07:39 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12760 invoked from network); 23 May 2007 06:07:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 May 2007 06:07:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mls@pooteeweet.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mls@pooteeweet.org; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain pooteeweet.org from 212.112.227.169 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.112.227.169 ipx11223.ipxserver.de Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [212.112.227.169] ([212.112.227.169:56499] helo=ipx11223.ipxserver.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id A7/52-26510-92AD3564 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 02:07:38 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ipx11223.ipxserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2241DF006E; Wed, 23 May 2007 08:07:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ipx11223.ipxserver.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flottensignalgeber [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10945-04; Wed, 23 May 2007 08:07:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (125.99.76.83.cust.bluewin.ch [83.76.99.125]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ipx11223.ipxserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79BE6DF000C; Wed, 23 May 2007 08:07:32 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4653DA24.8060801@pooteeweet.org> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:07:32 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wez Furlong Cc: Lester Caine , PHP internals References: <139872287.20070504170744@marcus-boerger.de> <736AED54-1272-4924-A07D-3166A1742A2F@prohost.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE2FEF72@us-ex1.zend.net> <463EDD0B.7080300@lsces.co.uk> <4e89b4260705222133y185892bdie46be2e78a2e471b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4e89b4260705222133y185892bdie46be2e78a2e471b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by somedaemon at backendmedia.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Starting 5.3 From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) Wez Furlong wrote: > On 5/7/07, Lester Caine wrote: >> No one has time to work on the >> Firebird PDO driver because we still need the main driver to provide the >> functions PDO does not support. > > Umm, no. Nobody has time for firebird because nobody uses it. > I ask people about Firebird at each conference and I've never had more > than about 1 in 50 people admit to ever having used it, and those are > shaky hands going up--we're not talking die-hard firebird users here. From my experience Firebird users are quite regionally distributed across Brazil and Russia. But anyways, the problem is of course not that we are uninterested in Firebird, but simply that nobody with the C hacker skills has taken this over yet. regards, Lukas