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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] tentative 5.3 release plan
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 16.07.2008, at 16:13, Christopher Jones wrote:

>
>
> Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> >
> > On 16.07.2008, at 00:50, Christopher Jones wrote:
> >
> >> > 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).
> >>
> >> I'd prefer to keep the status quo instead of making the build more
> >> complex.  The idea was to simplify the distribution and move  
> forward.
> >>
> >> The DB versions in question are Oracle 7 - released in 1993, and
> >> Oracle 8.0 - released in 1997, IIRC.  These versions are even more
> >> uncommon than when PDO_OCI was created in back 2004.
> >
> >
> > Well for Oracle 7 I can definitely see it, but Oracle 8 will still  
> be in
> > production in plenty of places. I am fine with not supporting them  
> out
> > of the box, but I think we should try to offer them a download  
> from PECL
> > by the time 5.3.0 ships. That being said the world will not end  
> for me
> > if we do not provide this, especially since I assume very few people
> > will have Oracle 8 and running a PDO based app on windows. Most  
> people
> > will probably be using ext/oci8 for this kind of setup.
>
> Of the Oracle 8.x releases, there will be more 8.1 in use than 8.0 and
> only the latter is directly affected.  Php_pdo_oci.dll will connect to
> Oracle 8.1.


Ah ok, I was thinking 8.x .. now it makes more sense to me.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org