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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.2.4RC1 Released
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Lorenzo Alberton wrote:
> Antony Dovgal wrote:
>>>> Blindly reverting something is no fix, those changes were done for a 
>>>> good reason, even though Marcus didn't test them very good (but 
>>>> that's what RCs are for, isn't it?).
>>>
>>> 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).
> 
> I do (btw, I'm the maintainer of PEAR::MDB2, including the ibase
> driver), and I know a lot of people using Firebird/Interbase.
> Unfortunately, since PDO_Firebird is completely broken [1]
> and Ard isn't active anymore, the only option left is using
> the current php_interbase extension.

Ard was amongst the list of people who could not see any need to develop a 
second driver since the php_interbase one IS working fine. It would be nice to 
build a Firebird version against the modern client, and do away with the need 
to build a legacy client to allow it to work. That IS in the pipeline, but as 
yet no-one who uses Firebird/PHP in production has seen any need to spend time 
on a more limited PDO driver ;) Ard had built a lot of capability into the 
driver, and has added all the hooks for an fbird port already for a split, 
which is probably now due given the extensive work Firebird has received in 
the version 2 builds, and the new service facilities that it would be nice to 
support directly. But even the existing php_interbase handles FB2.x without a 
problem.

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