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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] The battle between users and developers
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Pierre Joye wrote:
>>> I can provide the libs in the next days as well as use them in our
>>> binaries snapshops (5.3, 6.x, maybe 5.2 if it works well and is 100%
>>> BC).
>> Static linking the client library may be a problem! Flamerobin needs to use
>> the client for database management, and my legacy applications run in
>> parallel on some machines. I run multiple web servers each with their own
>> local legacy hardware but sharing data on a remote server.
> 
> Ah right, we do it dynamically already (was looking for fbclient but
> we still use gd32.dll  :).

Still need gds32.dll for compatibility with Interbase. That is why a 
php_firebird may now be appropriate. I'm doubt that Interbase will work with 
the fbclient - in fact I suspect that even Interbase users would need a newer 
gds32.dll from the Interbase install to access the current versions of 
Interbase! Just don't know of anybody rich enough to use Interbase ;)

5.3.0 snapshot runs clean on the ibtest package but we do need to extend that 
to add a few more blob tests. bitweaver runs except for a number of 
'Deprecated' errors, so the blob functions are still fine. Just need to work 
through the list of 'Deprecated' errors and see if we can do anything about 
them AND maintain BC ....

1/ Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated
2/ The is_dst parameter is deprecated in mk/gmmtime

Only thing I spotted was a silly with php.ini. I had - path\" - as the end of 
the include path, and PHP5.3.0 then used the whole of the rest of the ini file 
as the include path! Drop the '\' leaving path" and everything is fine. I 
think the '\' was there originally because of a problem with it not being 
added, but it does seem that it is no longer needed?

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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