Re: PDO DBLIB Release Candidate?

hi, On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Stanley Sufficool <ssufficool@gmail.com> wrote: > I would argue that the additional fixes in trunk fix bugs rather than > introducing new functionality since they were already in the PDO > specification and they do not break BC. I do not see why this would be > held out of releases. They should, only not right now in 5.3.3/5.2.14 as we are in the second release candidates. The reasons why we should not begin to apply dozen of patches at this stage are rather obvious, hopefully :). > FWIW, Microsoft has a monopoly on a fully functional PDO mssql driver > which is only implemented on MS platforms. If we want portability of > PHP applications, then the PDO DBLIB driver must be fully functional > on releases. That's not correct. PHP 5.3+ has no SqlServer support on Windows. The SqlSrv driver is more than welcome as it solves this problem. The PDO support is still beta (CTP2). However all other platforms do have SqlServer support by default in the core. > BTW, This extension is experimental and subject to change. Well it > did, and they were warned. Hence the worries? :) -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org