On 4/30/06, Steph Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The attached patch makes it possible to build either php_sqlite.dll
without
the PDO dependency, or php_pdo_sqlite2.dll with the PDO dependency.
That means that you end up with php_pdo_sqlite2.dll only in the
official snapshot builds.
Yes - because it has PDO support. That's exactly the same situation we
already have in win32 snaps, except that it doesn't declare itself. This way
it _does_ declare itself, removing a tiny bit of WTF-ness from the lives of
win32/PHP users everywhere :)
I'm hoping it'll mean you can consider enabling built-in sqlite by
default
again, even if PDO isn't quite ready for that yet?
It's got nothing to do with PDO "being ready". The only reason that
the sqlite2 driver is part of the sqlite2 extension is because we
include a bundled sqlite2 library.
I've asked several times why PDO isn't enabled by default. Having had no
answer, I assumed it was because it's still marked EXPERIMENTAL - and in
fact that's the only answer anyone else could come up with too.
I still don't see why you think that you need everything to be
compiled into PHP statically on windows--we ship *all* the binaries
that you might need, and everybody knows how to edit php.ini to turn
on the bits they are missing.
Everybody knows you HAVE to enable PDO in order to run SQLite 2 in PHP 5.1,
despite the fact that SQLite 2 was statically built-in throughout the 5.0
series and despite the fact that there's nothing in the sqlite library name
to make that relationship obvious? Are you sure?
I don't want *everything* to be statically built in. I think having no
built-in database support in PHP is basically wrong because it's not what
users are used to; I think SQLite, having been there before, should never
have been removed in the way it was in the first place; and I think PDO
should be statically built-in by default because it's one less thing for
people to remember when they're enabling their chosen PDO drivers.
PDO_SQLite should also be in there because people should be moving to it,
but SQLite 2 - being used in PHP 4 code as well as PHP 5 code - should be
supported, and this seems the best way of ensuring that it always is.
The part I really don't understand is why you don't see there's a problem
with the status quo. What arguments are there against built-in database
support, other than 'we ship all the binaries anyway'?
- Steph
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