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Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:32:24 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Support for all users?
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 09:02 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
> Having now established that phpng only currently supports MySQL and 
> SQLite, many of us are once again cut out of the loop. That the 
> structural changes require a deep understanding of the 'new engine' to 
> make the missing extensions available cuts out other people picking up 
> the baton easily, so we are stuck with a half built alternative and no 
> roadmap as to when it may be testable by everyone?

Well, the changes most extensions need for ng are mostly
straight-forward, mostly mechanical and probably we can even automate
that to quite some degree (be it with some grep/sed/... foo or a clan
plugin)

But even then the actual issue remains: We don't have developers who
know how to setup all libraries and systems to test those changes. PHP,
for the most part, is driven by people who have a problem and work on
it. Looking at the history of the interbase extension it is more than 10
years since anything but mechanical changes have been made. If you
provide constructive feedback and test those mechanical changes I'm sure
somebody will assist ... but best is if you find somebody from the
firebird community who wants to work on this, I'm sure they'd be
welcomed ...

johannes