Re: PDO Oracle driver

On 22 April 2015 at 11:24, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: > cc-ing doc list > > On 22 April 2015 at 10:40, Stelian Mocanita <stelian.mocanita@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello internals, >> >> I would like to ask what on your thoughts on removing the Oracle drive for >> PDO from the documentation (http://us1.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-oci.php) >> at least since it's been experimental for a long time now, and it has long >> standing open bugs, such as: >> > From the documentation point of view: Just because an extension is considered experimental, or indeed unmaintained, is no reason to remove the extension from the manual. We have a bunch of extensions marked as experimental [1] or dead [2] and I don't see why pdo_oci should be any different. > >> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37706 >> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46728 >> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60994 >> >> I know that the extension is marked as experimental already but based on >> the current status, it's not even that and a significant amount of basic >> functionality is broken. >> > Let's mark the extension as "dead" in the manual, as we do with other dead extensions. > >> Regards, >> Stelian >> > > [1] bcompiler, blenc, dbplus, haru, memtrack, ming, paradox, pdo_4d, pdo_oci, sca, sdodasrel, spl_types, svn, swish, vpopmail, xmlrpc [2] classkit, fam, fdf, iisfunc, msession, nis, session_pgsql