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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php_firebird
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Pierre Joye wrote:
> 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.

The 5.2.6 Windows build is not NOW showing any of the problems introduced with 
the changes to the 5.2.x builds. There MAY still be a problem with 64 bit 
builds for Linux, but it's been difficult to actually prove anything.

So WHAT THE F**K are you expecting from us? We just need *ANY* windows 5.2.7 
compilation to test, and the last 5.3.0 build was working fine but until the 
'discussion' on other areas are concluded there seems little point doing any 
further testing?

FIREBIRD has pulled somewhat further ahead and needs it's own build for that, 
but there has still been no response on how we can achieve that! And until the 
windows snapshot builds are actually being produced it's difficult to test 
anything :(

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