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Subject: Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...
From: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com (Stas Malyshev)

Hi!

> A number of extensions were dropped because of the rules applied to building
> them. In my case php_interbase is missing, and since Firebird is the only
> database I use it's something of a problem. So we simply build it and supply it
> from the Firebird site. But other extensions are also still lagging behind in
> conversion to being PHP5.3 compatible.

Wait, you mean PHP binary builds miss ext/interbase? But you can always 
build it yourself (or have somebody do it for you ;), it's not 
incompatibility in PHP 5.3. Or you mean something is missing in the code?

> For an off the shelf windows PHP5 build, 5.2.14 is the only one that includes
> these libraries off the shelf and until 5.3 does I can't point my own customers
> there.

You mean you can't point them to download binary builds from 
windows.php.net? That doesn't make 5.3 unstable though...
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