Re: tentative 5.3 release plan

On 16.07.2008, at 16:13, Christopher Jones wrote:

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: On 16.07.2008, at 00:50, Christopher Jones wrote:

We could still support older Oracle versions with an optional download. If we want to be super fancy, we might even include a

note

in an error message when trying to connect to older versions that there is pdo_oci8 available as an optional download from

win.php.net

(or whatever our pecl4win.php.net replacement will be).

I'd prefer to keep the status quo instead of making the build more complex. The idea was to simplify the distribution and move

forward.

The DB versions in question are Oracle 7 - released in 1993, and Oracle 8.0 - released in 1997, IIRC. These versions are even more uncommon than when PDO_OCI was created in back 2004.

Well for Oracle 7 I can definitely see it, but Oracle 8 will still be in production in plenty of places. I am fine with not supporting them out of the box, but I think we should try to offer them a download from PECL by the time 5.3.0 ships. That being said the world will not end for me if we do not provide this, especially since I assume very few people will have Oracle 8 and running a PDO based app on windows. Most people will probably be using ext/oci8 for this kind of setup. Of the Oracle 8.x releases, there will be more 8.1 in use than 8.0 and only the latter is directly affected. Php_pdo_oci.dll will connect to Oracle 8.1.

Ah ok, I was thinking 8.x .. now it makes more sense to me. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org