Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:49000 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 11268 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2010 20:07:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jul 2010 20:07:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.161.42 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.161.42 mail-fx0-f42.google.com Received: from [209.85.161.42] ([209.85.161.42:57109] helo=mail-fx0-f42.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 45/8C-33717-D789F2C4 for ; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:07:26 -0400 Received: by fxm4 with SMTP id 4so3417213fxm.29 for ; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:07:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=iMjCfAMjAqcVe36JtbQWDBQnlcowu/CvVP+ikCf+DGg=; b=XT9kC5iKE6tLwur+BR7Ed/ueJM9skIzRhISG0SGcskC9AQZZdXFXrLBDIatBPnlGLa SPL/Yz4D5MgSNNyNGun9v15tMxUwnjYa0+bPzEdDFvDNyu5usdY9EpcljTdPuLUSNKd6 OZTH2qE2RaiYWaNGTw8abgtT+2iEhfBS7ATMc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=aP0ilICiNvOx/bFdhjOG0iKmseGhsKQOKD2XuK54yahZm/iCujv4ohrHdGDJAm8c6V Fv8eWe4m/QnM9zSh96HTKNQagz33EmT+0cx/S0cKJhzxMrMGh3SWCsWIDpOJW2xegc+n bOfmOE1oEw8CdA6SubZcCkxyou/aTeXQRxH8k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.124.208 with SMTP id v16mr578484far.28.1278187640271; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:07:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.113.143 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 13:07:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4C2E0984.5040607@oracle.com> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 22:07:20 +0200 Message-ID: To: Stanley Sufficool Cc: Christopher Jones , Ilia Alshanetsky , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johannes_Schl=FCter?= , internals@lists.php.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PDO DBLIB Release Candidate? From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) hi, On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Stanley Sufficool wrote: > I would argue that the additional fixes in trunk fix bugs rather than > introducing new functionality since they were already in the PDO > specification and they do not break BC. I do not see why this would be > held out of releases. They should, only not right now in 5.3.3/5.2.14 as we are in the second release candidates. The reasons why we should not begin to apply dozen of patches at this stage are rather obvious, hopefully :). > FWIW, Microsoft has a monopoly on a fully functional PDO mssql driver > which is only implemented on MS platforms. If we want portability of > PHP applications, then the PDO DBLIB driver must be fully functional > on releases. That's not correct. PHP 5.3+ has no SqlServer support on Windows. The SqlSrv driver is more than welcome as it solves this problem. The PDO support is still beta (CTP2). However all other platforms do have SqlServer support by default in the core. > BTW, This extension is experimental and subject to change. Well it > did, and they were warned. Hence the worries? :) -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org