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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Looking for Z_TYPE_PP in all the wrong places.
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 14.12.2016 at 19:27, Anatol Belski wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Wallner [mailto:mike.php.net@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Michael
>> Wallner
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:33 PM
>> To: RQuadling@gmail.com; PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
>> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Looking for Z_TYPE_PP in all the wrong places.
>>
>> On 14/12/16 14:17, Richard Quadling wrote:
>>
>>> But, according to
>>> http://lxr.php.net/source/search?q=&defs=&refs=Z_TYPE_PP&path=&hist=&t
>>> ype=&project=PHP-MASTER, there is still 1 use case of this particular
>>> macro.
>>
>> This just means that nobody ever built ext/odbc with the birdstep driver.
>> Unfortunate.
>>
> Yeah, birdstep was even not ported to 7.0, and monkey patching were anyway erroneous. Seems it was a commercial driver, but either it was rebranded or discontinued, anyway I never found the driver SDK.

According to Wikipedia[1], Raima Incorporated purchased Raima back from
Birdstep.  They're offering free evaluation downloads for their software[2].

> It might make sense to remove the birdstep part from the ext/odbc, 
> except there's someone with driver and maintanence will - it's a
> dead code.

ACK.

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raima>
[2] <http://raima.com/download-table/>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker