Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:48797 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 16629 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2010 19:00:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jun 2010 19:00:14 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.8.134.189 unknown Received: from [64.8.134.189] ([64.8.134.189:27509] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 5E/7C-47853-ABDC71C4 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:00:12 -0400 To: internals@lists.php.net,Ilia Alshanetsky Message-ID: <4C17CDB5.8070103@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:00:05 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 64.8.134.189 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove sqlite2 from trunk From: rpanning@gmail.com (Ryan Panning) Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > There is way too much code that uses ext/mysql and ext/mysql does not depend > on a legacy library, I don't think we can remove it. As far as mssql, it is > the one way to talk to Microsoft SQL from *nix systems, until there are good > alternatives for a direct interface, I don't think we should remove it. Just FYI. I just setup a PHP application for work that mentions the limitations of the mssql ext. They provided a couple alternatives that they work with. Just wanted to point out that there are alternatives. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_MSSQL_for_PHP