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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] extensions status, to move to pecl or to drop
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Pierre Joye wrote:
> What I'm asking you is to help me to actually have a controllable and
> testable firebird drivers in PHP. I will do my best to help you to get
> things fixed and to provide the best windows binaries. However, one
> thing is sure, I can't do it alone. For two reasons, I'm not a
> firebird user and I have to learn it and I do not have the time or
> resources to do it.
> 
> Please let me know if you or the firebird team is ready to help us to
> improve the firebird support in php and in the end, to keep it in php.

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE CURRENT FIREBIRD SUPPORT SO WHY DO WE NEED TO 
IMPROVE IT? If something was missing it would be a different matter, but all 
that is missing is a UNICODE only base to work from.

I have two problems with BUILDING windows binaries myself.

Being a long time Borland C++ house all of our compile system is set up for 
Borland Builder5/6 and we have never moved on from that simple because all of 
the new work is being done as PHP web applications.

I have been spending any spare time between running two businesses - neither 
of which earn enough to pay the mortgage on their own :( - moving the legacy 
windows code to Linux. And in Linux I have no problem playing with C++ code 
without the need for open check-book to pay M$ exhortation. The main reason 
for moving to PHP was to get out from under M$ but my customers still insist 
on using Windows even where we show that Apache/PHP/Firebird performs better 
on Linux.

The only thing that is holding up full use of UNICODE is the useless support 
in PHP5  - something which I had anticipated would be solved with the release 
of a PHP6 beta in 2007. We are half way through 2008 and there is not even a 
hit of an Alpha PHP6 while PHP5 goalposts seem to be moving monthly :(

Until there is a roadmap to a production release of PHP6 then I am not going 
to divert time to what I see as a dead end development and in the meantime I 
am being threatened that if I don't help with this sidetrack the one component 
of PHP that I consider essential will be removed :(

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