Re: tentative 5.3 release plan
| From: | Christopher Jones | Date: | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:27:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: tentative 5.3 release plan | ||
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Daniel Convissor wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:09:33PM -0700, Christopher Jones wrote:The plan is to continue shipping php_pdo_oci.dll. This allows users to use PDO_OCI to connect to Oracle 8.1, 9.2, 10 and 11 Databases. The codebase for php_pdo_oci.dll and php_pdo_oci8.dll is the same (and only one can be enabled at a given time) Non-windows users of PDO_OCI would be not affected in anyway whatsoever. Chris -- Christopher Jones, Oracle Email: christopher.jones@oracle.com Tel: +1 650 506 8630 Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/ Free PHP Book: http://tinyurl.com/f8jadFor 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.