Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:38545 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 2040 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2008 15:41:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Jun 2008 15:41:39 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 193.34.64.214 unknown Received: from [193.34.64.214] ([193.34.64.214:3684] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 49/32-25460-034CF584 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:41:38 -0400 Message-ID: <49.32.25460.034CF584@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:36:36 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <139872287.20070504170744@marcus-boerger.de> <736AED54-1272-4924-A07D-3166A1742A2F@prohost.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE2FEF72@us-ex1.zend.net> <463EDD0B.7080300@lsces.co.uk> <4e89b4260705222133y185892bdie46be2e78a2e471b@mail.gmail.com> <4653DA24.8060801@pooteeweet.org> <4e89b4260705230759i64821f14y9bcb7cbcb34aa197@mail.gmail.com> <46546175.5030205@lsces.co.uk> <46546B6C.8010107@pooteeweet.org> <4E.EC.23032.5BD9F584@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 193.34.64.214 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Starting 5.3 From: milanb@panonnet.net (Milan Babuskov) Pierre Joye wrote: >>> if nobody with C hacking skills is feeling sufficient pain over this, the >>> assumption is that the pool of users is too small or the pain is too small. >> >> sorry for such late reply, but I just joined this group. I'm very interested >> in Firebird's future in PHP and I have C skills. However, to answer your >> assumption: the pain is too small. > > How should we understand that? Too small to actually take care of it? Perhaps I didn't quote enough of Lukas' posting. I was addressing PDO support for Firebird. If would be great pain not to have php_interbase, and if nobody is out there willing to do it, I'd like to step up. What are the requirements for someone to become an extension maintainer? > With the risk to repeat myself, the goal is to have a long term > working extension with maintainer(s). An extension without > maintainers, especially DB related extensions (or service specific > extension) will slowly die within a couple of years if nothing is > done. > > Let forget PDO for now, that's not the point (even if a working > firebird support for PDO would rock). Ok. What do I need to become a maintainer of php_interbase? I got C/C++ skills and an very familiar with Firebird (I'm part of the team that makes FlameRobin, which is an open source cross-platform C++ admin. tool for Firebird). I have access to Linux and Windows XP. Although I prefer Linux for development, I could compile something with MSVC Express Edition if/when it's really needed. Now, when we're at it, my experience with MSVC and Windows command line tools is almost none. I tried to build PHP 5.3 with it, but the guide on PHP website has some errors (some stuff just isn't where it says it is, and it seems some steps are skipped. Also, the 'configure' script used for MSVC fails to detect that those things are missing). Where should I report such problems? (Is this list appropriate for such questions)? Thanks, -- Milan Babuskov http://www.flamerobin.org