Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:81698 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 68880 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2015 09:25:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Feb 2015 09:25:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 217.147.176.214 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.214 mail4-2.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.214] ([217.147.176.214:36423] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CF/87-20608-A1490D45 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 04:25:47 -0500 Received: (qmail 14918 invoked by uid 89); 3 Feb 2015 09:25:44 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 14912, pid: 14915, t: 0.0686s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.8?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@86.189.147.37) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 3 Feb 2015 09:25:44 -0000 Message-ID: <54D09417.1050000@lsces.co.uk> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 09:25:43 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP internals References: <54CFCE27.3070004@lsces.co.uk> <54D08238.9080100@beccati.com> <54D08A85.2000200@beccati.com> <54D08F86.9040803@lsces.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Removal of dead or not yet PHP7 ported SAPIs and extensions From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 03/02/15 09:14, Pierre Joye wrote: >> I wonder if ANY mssql users have noticed that they may be left out of >> PHP7 ... I suspect that may actually have a bigger user base than the >> paid for 'Interbase' yet it's got no support here. > > For mssql, most of them (while we see more and more requests from linux > lately) are on windows. And mssql support has been removed with the > release of 5.3.0. Since 2 years they use sqlsrv from pecl. I spotted the reference to using ODBC as an alternative as well which does get used for Firebird in some areas. The point perhaps is that like mysql, the information as to what IS the preferred method of working these days is not being linked to the discussion? There is useful material on a number of these 'removals' but it's all mixed up in the one thread :( Separate 'crib sheets' to support each eventual change? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk