On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Milan Babuskov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >>>> >>>> if nobody with C hacking skills is feeling sufficient pain over this, >>>> the >>>> assumption is that the pool of users is too small or the pain is too >>>> small. >>> >>> sorry for such late reply, but I just joined this group. I'm very >>> interested >>> in Firebird's future in PHP and I have C skills. However, to answer your >>> assumption: the pain is too small. >> >> How should we understand that? Too small to actually take care of it? > > Perhaps I didn't quote enough of Lukas' posting. I was addressing PDO > support for Firebird. If would be great pain not to have php_interbase, and > if nobody is out there willing to do it, I'd like to step up. > > What are the requirements for someone to become an extension maintainer? > >> With the risk to repeat myself, the goal is to have a long term >> working extension with maintainer(s). An extension without >> maintainers, especially DB related extensions (or service specific >> extension) will slowly die within a couple of years if nothing is >> done. >> >> Let forget PDO for now, that's not the point (even if a working >> firebird support for PDO would rock). > > Ok. > > What do I need to become a maintainer of php_interbase?
Motivation and a some free time (happiness too :) > Now, when we're at it, my experience with MSVC and Windows command line > tools is almost none. I tried to build PHP 5.3 with it, but the guide on PHP > website has some errors (some stuff just isn't where it says it is, and it > seems some steps are skipped. Also, the 'configure' script used for MSVC > fails to detect that those things are missing). Where should I report such > problems? (Is this list appropriate for such questions)? You don't have to be a windows pro as long as you can test it on windows. The main problem now is that we had no maintainer to take care of the bugs (there is bugs), to valid a release (sources or binary), etc. Are you (still) interested? :) -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
