Re: tentative 5.3 release plan

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:09:33PM -0700, Christopher Jones wrote: > > 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. Removing it completely or requring people to build it themselves is sub-optimal. If you really want it out of PHP, please make it a PECL package. Thanks, --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming http://www.AnalysisAndSolutions.com/ 4015 7th Ave #4, Brooklyn NY 11232 v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409