On Aug 18, 2016 8:03 PM, "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecke...@gmx.de> wrote: > > On 18.08.2016 at 01:32, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > > > 2016-08-15 7:53 GMT+02:00 Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com>: > >> Please comment and discuss! > > > > What about adding the following: > > ext/dba > > > > As for DBA, this extension have not really seen any major updates or > > anything since 2009 when the Tokyo Cabinet support was added (PHP > > 5.3), is this still used largely or? > > I don't know, but most certainly not on Windows. I had a look at > ext/dba, because I like that we have it bundled, but got 3 failing tests > (flatfile and inifile), which might be caused by running in a Vagrant > box on NTFS. So I tried to compile on Windows, just to learn that > config.w32 is totally out-dated. It doesn't support individual config > options for the different drivers, but rather checks whether db3 is > found, and only then configures the built in drivers. Of course, db3 is > not part of the delivered deps, what is likely the reason that > dba_php.dll isn't distributed anymore as of PHP 5.3 (it would make > sense, IMO, to ship dba_php.dll with the built-in drivers plus those > whose requirements could be bundled in the deps). > > Fixing config.w32 shouldn't be too hard (it may take quite some time to > test with the different drivers, though), but I expect further issues > would have to be solved.
The last time I checked it was for the 5.3 windows support big jump. If I remember correctly many banckends were not available on windowd (mainly vc6). Some may be available now.
