Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP (ext/interbase) driver maintenance

2019-04-17 Thread Pierre Joye
Good morning, On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 1:54 PM Köditz, Martin wrote: > > Hi Kalle, > > > With all this being said; there is however one option in case the vote > > passes when it ends in about a weeks time. > > That is for the Firebird Foundation to take over control of the extension > > on PECL

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP (ext/interbase) driver maintenance

2019-04-17 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Di, 2019-04-16 at 23:49 +0100, Dan Ackroyd wrote: > I'm pretty sure one of the big goals that the PHP project should try > to accomplish over the next year or two is to allow extensions to be > distributed through channels similar to Composer. In reality 90% of users use Linux (or *BSD or Mac b

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP (ext/interbase) driver maintenance

2019-04-17 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Hi Den ons. 17. apr. 2019 kl. 09.54 skrev Köditz, Martin : > By the way: > Pierre Joye mentioned to request access via a github account at > https://www.php.net/git-php.php. I read the complete instruction. But I'm > still unable to process successfully. I always get an error saying the answer

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP (ext/interbase) driver maintenance

2019-04-16 Thread Dan Ackroyd
Somebody wrote somewhere: > > > Would you agree if things are done correctly that it is in everyone's best > > interests to keep a solid and well-maintained driver for InterBase and > > Firebird in the core? No. When PHP first became widely used, distributing software was difficult, and having ev

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP (ext/interbase) driver maintenance

2019-04-16 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Hi Den tir. 16. apr. 2019 kl. 20.38 skrev Jason Wharton : > > Kalle, > > I am not intimately aware of the details of how things have been maintained > in the past by Lester. But, it didn't sound to me as if Lester was patching > his own build of PHP or trying to take short-cuts in a bad way. He

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP (ext/interbase) driver maintenance

2019-04-16 Thread Lester Caine
On 16/04/2019 18:20, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: Everytime the topic of interbase comes up, you always referer to applying fixes, yet I'm yet to see any contributions from you to actually maintain the code at php-src, am I to understand that this means you patch your own builds of PHP? Because it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP (ext/interbase) driver maintenance

2019-04-16 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Den tir. 16. apr. 2019 kl. 20.09 skrev Lester Caine : > The 'advantage' up to now of being in core has been that the BULK of the > code changes have been required to track changes in the PHP side of the > interface. The core SQL interface has not basically changed so up until > now it has worked fi

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP (ext/interbase) driver maintenance

2019-04-16 Thread Lester Caine
On 16/04/2019 14:29, Chase Peeler wrote: Not once has the fact that an extension exists in PECL instead of core prevented me from utilizing that extension. The only thing that has ever prevented me from using an extension is when it is not maintained. I've been following this entire thread, and

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP (ext/interbase) driver maintenance

2019-04-16 Thread Chase Peeler
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:12 AM Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > Hi > > Discussions regarding PHP should be in the public and on the PHP > internals mailing lists, not in private so I'm forwarding this email > to its proper place. > > Den tir. 16. apr. 2019 kl. 02.40 skrev Jason Wharton : > > I woul