Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:38212 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 20477 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2008 14:27:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jun 2008 14:27:15 -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 88.198.8.16 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 88.198.8.16 bigtime.backendmedia.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [88.198.8.16] ([88.198.8.16:48007] helo=bigtime.backendmedia.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 33/42-06776-145D3584 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:27:15 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by bigtime.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47739414400C; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:28:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at backendmedia.com Received: from bigtime.backendmedia.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bigtime.backendmedia.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QShJCLQoyrq4; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:28:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.151] (77-57-23-243.dclient.hispeed.ch [77.57.23.243]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mls@pooteeweet.org) by bigtime.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4E6414400A; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:28:42 +0200 (CEST) Cc: internals Message-ID: <6C9C74CD-6271-44BD-B285-2B2BA66C0C56@pooteeweet.org> To: "Pierre Joye" In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:26:48 +0200 References: <0497E5D4-1F92-4463-B98D-BE6B877B36B7@pooteeweet.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] extensions status, to move to pecl or to drop From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) On 14.06.2008, at 16:24, Pierre Joye wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith > wrote: >> >> On 12.06.2008, at 16:31, Pierre Joye wrote: >> >>> - interbase >>> - fbsql >>> - sybase and sybase_ct >> >> >> I think moving fbsql is quite reasonable. However interbase and >> sybase I do >> not agree with. > > > Who will maintain them? Who can we ask when there is issues (besides > the obvious ones)? These extension seem widely used enough that we have to make it an effort to support them. Removing them is removing a key feature our user base experts to find. Now for PHP6 I see this a bit differently, especially provided we have decent support for these databases via PDO. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org