On 29/03/2019 08:50, Benjamin Eberlei wrote:
So it looks like I'm going to be stuck on PHP7.3 from now on ...
I think you misunderstand what is happening here.
Many extensions are "just" in PECL and are still maintained there and
kept updated for newer versions. Distribution maintainers like Remi
package all the PECL extensions for every PHP version. Firebird support
will surely be updated to work with 7.4 and released by distributions.
It will *just* not be in php-src anymore.
Currently building 'interbase' extension has been turned off because
it's failing to pass the changes in master for thread safe operation. I
understand that it needs someone to work on it and I would love to be
able to do that but it's development requirements have moved outside the
area that I can cope with. And many people reliant on it are in the same
boat, just as they would not be able to contribute to writing code for
Firebird itself. While not perfect, what we have currently does it's job
just as PHP5.2 still works on legacy hosting. PDO hopefully will remain
available, but re-writing 20 years worth of code base for that different
way of working has the same problem as finding resources to update the
interbase extension.
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