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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:04:45 +0200
To: "marius popa" <mapopa@gmail.com>
Cc: "Lester Caine" <lester@lsces.co.uk>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php_firebird
From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye")

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:54 PM, marius popa <mapopa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi Lester,
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
>>> What is the correct procedure to create a new driver, or rather clone the
>>> existing php_interbase so that we can build a proper Firebird version that
>>> actually uses the fbclient.dll rather than sharing the now incompatible
>>> GDS32.DLL client. Some people are starting to use Interbase in parallel with
>>> Firebird, but the driver can only access one client :(
>>
>> I wonder where ended our discussions about fixing firebird/interbase
>> issues on windows. Despite my reminders, I saw nothing from any of the
>> volunteers. It is very unlikely that I or any other will take care of
>> these drivers any time soon. That means that it is likely to do not be
>> present at all in 5.3.0+ (windows).
>
> The only bugs left are the one with blobs
> http://bugs.php.net/search.php?cmd=display&status=Open&bug_type%5B%5D=InterBase+related
>
> and i think the failed events tests from the extension directory
>
> Please tell us what issues are still present on windows ?

No build are done and none are planed in a near future without a
significant effort from the actual users or developers of the
firebird/interbase drivers.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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