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To: Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] orphan extensions cleanup
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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On Aug 18, 2016 8:03 PM, "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 18.08.2016 at 01:32, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote:
>
> > 2016-08-15 7:53 GMT+02:00 Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>:
> >> Please comment and discuss!
> >
> > What about adding the following:
> > ext/dba
> >
> > As for DBA, this extension have not really seen any major updates or
> > anything since 2009 when the Tokyo Cabinet support was added (PHP
> > 5.3), is this still used largely or?
>
> I don't know, but most certainly not on Windows.  I had a look at
> ext/dba, because I like that we have it bundled, but got 3 failing tests
> (flatfile and inifile), which might be caused by running in a Vagrant
> box on NTFS.  So I tried to compile on Windows, just to learn that
> config.w32 is totally out-dated.  It doesn't support individual config
> options for the different drivers, but rather checks whether db3 is
> found, and only then configures the built in drivers.  Of course, db3 is
> not part of the delivered deps, what is likely the reason that
> dba_php.dll isn't distributed anymore as of PHP 5.3 (it would make
> sense, IMO, to ship dba_php.dll with the built-in drivers plus those
> whose requirements could be bundled in the deps).
>
> Fixing config.w32 shouldn't be too hard (it may take quite some time to
> test with the different drivers, though), but I expect further issues
> would have to be solved.

The last time I checked it was for the 5.3 windows support big jump.

If I remember correctly many banckends were not available on windowd
(mainly vc6). Some may be available now.

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