On 22/03/2019 13:26, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote:
G'day internals
I'd like to start the discussion for the future of the ext/interbase extension:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-and-remove-ext-interbase
The rationale for pushing this extension out of the core is mentioned
in the RFC.
Unless there is any serious issues raised here, then I will put this
into voting on Monday 8th of April, noon EET (which is a good two and
a half weeks away). The intended voting period is set for 2 weeks,
meaning if voting proceeds, the pools will be closed around Monday
22th of April, noon EET.
It is not that we don't want to stand up and maintain it, it has been
impossible in recent years to get a handle on just what needs to be done
TO maintain it. The PDO extension is in a much worse state than the main
interbase one but both of them do their jobs as well as they can given
that in the case of PDO it can't handle the cross database transactions,
something that the main extension does quite happily.
Personally I've been wasting time recently trying to keep alive sites
that are using MySQL and the main problem with MySQL is the one thing
that Firebird does nicely. Backup just runs as a secondary cron job
independent of PHP while MySQL is reliant on PHP and current backups on
some wordpress powered sites are failing because they run out of time or
memory. I've never had a problem with loosing data with Firebird while
I've had recover MySQL situations a few times in the last year!
So all we are asking for is HELP with the code changes that result from
changes to the PHP API to keep this available.
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