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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] orphan extensions cleanup
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 22.08.2016 at 18:52, Anatol Belski wrote:

> Hi Pierre,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 1:00 PM
>> To: Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
>> Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>; Kalle Sommer Nielsen
>> <kalle@php.net>; Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] orphan extensions cleanup
>>
>> On Aug 18, 2016 8:03 PM, "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> I was checking for possible libs after Christoph's enablement commit
> last week. At least qdbm looks like possible to be supported. The
> bundled libcdb is quite old. There are no new releases, but some
> patches might be available, need to check. Some Tokyo Cabinet ports
> did exist, but again need research. Closer to the end of the year,
> time could be taken to do the research and tests, so maybe to support
> more of dba in 7.2.

That would be great!

gdbm shouldn't also be a problem, if we can build that ourselves.  But
perhaps most important would be Oracle DB.  As config.w32 is now, only
libdb31s and libdb61 are supported.

Anyhow, it might be best not to hijack this thread further, but instead
move the discussion to internals-win. :-)

-- 
Christoph M. Becker