Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:38991 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 53525 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2008 21:16:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jul 2008 21:16:36 -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] ([88.198.8.16:47992] helo=bigtime.backendmedia.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 17/F1-11609-2B31D784 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:16:35 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by bigtime.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D9971EBC014; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:16:57 +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 VJ5mzuWZTXfx; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:16:55 +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 E60844144006; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:16:54 +0200 (CEST) Cc: PHP Developers Mailing List , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johannes_Schl=FCter?= , Wez Furlong Message-ID: To: Christopher Jones In-Reply-To: <487D120D.9060502@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v928.1) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:15:11 +0200 References: <487D120D.9060502@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] tentative 5.3 release plan From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) On 15.07.2008, at 23:09, Christopher Jones wrote: > > Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > > > In our dreams someone would also make PDO a focus area, since the > number > > of open bugs is getting ridiculous. This is also a call to the > general > > community to try and help to find a PDO maintainer. In the mean time > > people not adapt in C might at least try and plow through the bug > > tickets to find duplicates and verify the open tickets, write > tests etc. > > For PHP 5.3 on, I'd be happy to see the Windows builds of PDO_OCI only > produce php_pdo_oci.dll and no longer also build php_pdo_oci8.dll. > The latter uses an older set of Oracle client libraries that allows > connections to Oracle 7 and 8.0 databases. > > The impact is that users on Windows will no longer be able to connect > to the older databases unless they compile the extension themselves. > > The benefit is reduced user confusion and PDO maintenance. > > The change is to remove the pdo-oci8 section of ext/pdo_oci/config.w32 > and tidy up associated Windows DLL release infrastructre. I guess for windows it just comes down to what we bundle. We could still support older Oracle versions with an optional download. If we want to be super fancy, we might even include a note in an error message when trying to connect to older versions that there is pdo_oci8 available as an optional download from win.php.net (or whatever our pecl4win.php.net replacement will be). regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org