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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.2.4RC1 Released
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Antony Dovgal wrote:
> On 03.08.2007 17:50, Lester Caine wrote:
>>>> Obviously they were not tested at all?
>>>
>>> I don't know of any people using Interbase except for you and Ard 
>>> (who maintains all interbase extensions).
>>> So even if somebody did run the tests against an RC, he/she didn't 
>>> tell a word to us.
>>
>> The main reason this problem has now become a problem is a number of 
>> long time PHP4 users who have been convinced to move to PHP5 - only to 
>> fall at the first hurdle :(
> 
> It's good to hear that PHP4 users finally decided to move to PHP5.

I still have a couple of problems to investigate, but I'm sure that they are 
just the differences in the much improved version of php_interbase that is 
shipped with PHP5. A lot of the good stuff was never ported back :(

>>>> Currently the php_interbase driver is almost unusable in PHP5.2 as 
>>>> shipped, but the 5.2.1 copy works fine.
>>>
>>> Try the very next snapshot, I applied a patch after a discussion with 
>>> Marcus.
>>
>> Once it pops out as a windows build ;)
> 
> It should be already there, please check it out.

OK - Thanks Antony - that is looking fine. I'm happier now to move it to a 
production machine and see what the results are with a bit of load.

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