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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:10:58 +0200
To: "Lester Caine" <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] extensions status, to move to pecl or to drop
From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye")

Hi Lester,

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Apart from the problems created by changes made to the interbase driver in
> the 5.1 and early 5.2 cycle ( the 64 bit version of which STILL has not been
> repaired :( ) the driver still works fine with modern builds of Firebird so
> there as been no need to improve on it. Those of us who use it have not been
> persuaded that PDO has any advantage as yet, especially when you add ADOdb
> in as a back end, so there is NOT a suitable version of PDO for
> interbase/firebird and no one is working on THAT, so PLEASE do not remove
> the one package that is working well :(

You need it? Please help me to maintain and to provide reliable
binaries for windows or to keep it up to date when necessary (given
your comment below).

> As yet we have not identified any new functions in Firebird 2.1 that can not
> still be accessed via current driver, so there has not even been a need to
> spend time building an environment in which we can compile our own copies.
> The binary versions supplied in Linux and Windows simply work.

We are very reluctant to continue to release binaries where we have
zero ideas how we can update the dependencies without breaking
anything in the extension or in the end user applications. I would
have no problem to keep it and even to help to maintain it if (and
only if) I have someone knowing firebird and its php drivers well
enough to tell me if what I did works or not.

It is nice to complain how useless is PDO but it is way better to
actually contribute and help us to make your software working with PHP
:)

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre
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