On 15.07.2008, at 23:09, Christopher Jones wrote:
Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> In our dreams someone would also make PDO a focus area, since the
number
> of open bugs is getting ridiculous. This is also a call to the
general
> community to try and help to find a PDO maintainer. In the mean time
> people not adapt in C might at least try and plow through the bug
> tickets to find duplicates and verify the open tickets, write
tests etc.
For PHP 5.3 on, I'd be happy to see the Windows builds of PDO_OCI only
produce php_pdo_oci.dll and no longer also build php_pdo_oci8.dll.
The latter uses an older set of Oracle client libraries that allows
connections to Oracle 7 and 8.0 databases.
The impact is that users on Windows will no longer be able to connect
to the older databases unless they compile the extension themselves.
The benefit is reduced user confusion and PDO maintenance.
The change is to remove the pdo-oci8 section of ext/pdo_oci/config.w32
and tidy up associated Windows DLL release infrastructre.
I guess for windows it just comes down to what we bundle. We could
still support older Oracle versions with an optional download. If we
want to be super fancy, we might even include a note in an error
message when trying to connect to older versions that there is
pdo_oci8 available as an optional download from win.php.net (or
whatever our pecl4win.php.net replacement will be).
regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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