Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:38992 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 70587 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2008 22:07:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jul 2008 22:07:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=danielc@analysisandsolutions.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=danielc@analysisandsolutions.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain analysisandsolutions.com from 166.84.1.73 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: danielc@analysisandsolutions.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 166.84.1.73 mail2.panix.com Received: from [166.84.1.73] ([166.84.1.73:54001] helo=mail2.panix.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C0/25-11609-6BF1D784 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:07:52 -0400 Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [166.84.1.3]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF8A34808; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:07:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from analysis@localhost) by panix3.panix.com (8.11.6p3/8.8.8/PanixN1.1) id m6FM7mt15058; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:07:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:07:48 -0400 To: Christopher Jones Cc: Lukas Kahwe Smith , PHP Developers Mailing List , Johannes Schl?ter , Wez Furlong Message-ID: <20080715220747.GA23583@panix.com> References: <487D120D.9060502@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <487D120D.9060502@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] tentative 5.3 release plan From: danielc@analysisandsolutions.com (Daniel Convissor) On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:09:33PM -0700, Christopher Jones wrote: > > 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. Removing it completely or requring people to build it themselves is sub-optimal. If you really want it out of PHP, please make it a PECL package. Thanks, --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming http://www.AnalysisAndSolutions.com/ 4015 7th Ave #4, Brooklyn NY 11232 v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409