Sriram Natarajan wrote:
> Hi
> Just to let you know , other OS distributors have distributed unixODBC
> drivers for some time now.
It is true, but on other side important is how many users use it. If we
integrate unixODBC into opensolaris, then we will not able to remove
it in the future and somebody will must sustain it.
By my opinion, until we don't know how many people would like to have
unixODBC inside opensolaris we cannot make decision. Integrated
something because somebody has it in another distribution is not good way.
Zdenek
> I very much hope that we consider to bundle
> it as well so that upstack components like PHP community can benefit
> from this integration.
> thanks
> sriram
>
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Sriram,
>>
>>
>>> I am currently involved with WebStack project in OpenSolaris and would
>>> like to add more extensions for recently integrated PHP so that
>>> programmers can use our platform for development / production purposes.
>>> Based on the some of the feedback we received from some customers
>>> (outside Sun), it seems that we need to more database support within
>>> PHP and this requires databases client libraries like Free TSD , Oracle
>>> Instant Client and unixODBC to pre-exist on the system.
>>>
>> In principle I'm in favor of more drivers. However, I have a few questions:
>>
>> What's the licensing on the Oracle client? We can't necessarily just
>> include proprietary SW on Opensolaris.
>>
>> FreeTDS is a bit beta-quality, so it would require some QA, and probably
>> debugging for Solaris, first. Who's asking for this? Are there really
>> a lot of users who have a DB server on Windows and a web server on Solaris?
>>
>> unixODBC/iODBC keeps coming up as an issue, but we're not seeing actual
>> user requests. Do you have users with a need for it? That could affect
>> the priority.
>>
>> --Josh
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