At least one mail didn't bounce.
The situation with Interbase extension, in my opinion: it's dead meat
and should most probably be just removed. Nobody is currently, to my
knowledge, maintaining it. Even the birth of said extension was a bit
troublesome, when I had just for the fun of it written some very
rudimentary code, committed it, and after that it turned out that Zeev
was having a commercial negotiation about writing PHP support for it.
Because we didn't want to step on each other toes, that left the the
extension somewhat unmaintained for a while even then, and then I slowly
dropped out of PHP development. Mostly because my new work in banking
world had absolutely nothing to do with it, not because I would have
been tired of it. It was extraordinarily fun and I somehow still miss
those times. Kudos to everyone still working on PHP (I still recognize a
few names on the mailing list) and to every newcomer.
Now, this all happened when even PHP4 was still in development phase, a
very long time ago, so I'm quite surprised that extension survived even
into PHP5. Has anyone actually maintained it?
PDO_FIREBIRD is probably a good replacement for it and it seems to be
mentioned on the list of maintained extensions. I don't know how well it
works with Interbase, which is now a proprietary product by Embarcadero
Technologies. Firebird is an open source fork originating from the same
codebase. It might even work, if the communication protocol with
database hasn't changed (much) or can switch to some backwards
compatible mode when encountering a version it does not recognize.
And, last: funny coincidence that I received Anatol's email just now,
when I've just a week ago opened a github account and already have
several pull requests for 2 projects written in, surpricingly, PHP. Who
knows, maybe like the Terminator, "I'll be back".
Thanks for reading the rants of a really old fart.
-- Jouni Ahto
On 01/20/2015 11:22 AM, Anatol Belski wrote:
Hi Dmitry,
On Tue, January 20, 2015 06:08, Dmitry Stogov wrote:
Hi Anatol,
Despite of this, we also have few extensions not converted to PHP7 yet -
https://wiki.php.net/phpng#unsupported_extensions_not_converted_yet
3 of them related to MSSQL, 2 to Oracle and one to Interbase. the last
one is partially converted (may be compiled), but it's so ugly, so it
won't work without serious redesign (I'm not sure how it worked in php-5).
I'm going to rename and update the RFC to handle these cases as well.
Will first forward this off list to the authors standing in the sources,
so the bounces from the eventually non existent mails are not going back
to the list (would spam everyone). But will then repeat the same to the
list with valid mails.
Regards
Anatol
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