Subject Re: [IBDI] Porting to other OS'
Author Vince Duggan
John,

I'm using PHP3 with IB6B on Rehat 6.1 at the moment. It seems to work
fine, except that one cannot get at the new dialect 3 features of
course.

Vince

John.Hubbard@... wrote:
>
> I'd seen that, and plan on trying to get it working on a 4.0-RELEASE box
> that I have. How has IB changed since 4.0? Has it gained significanlty
> more functionality? I was also wondering if the PHP bindings work with
> 6.0B, I guess I should consider building a Linux box to give it a try. If
> anyone one of developers sees this, please consider it. A large number of
> people rely on BSD as a server platform, it just doesn't get the hype that
> Linux does.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mervin Pearce [mailto:pearcem@...]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 10:48 AM
> To: 'IBDI@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [IBDI] Porting to other OS'
>
> There has been a port of IB to FreeBSD previously by a Japanese company (I
> think) I feel we should try to find out a bit more with regards to this port
> or many IB evangelists *WILL* port it to the real *NIXes FreeBSD AFAIK.
>
> Best Regards,
> Mervin Pearce (CISA, CISSP)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John.Hubbard@... [mailto:John.Hubbard@...]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 5:04 PM
> To: IBDI@onelist.com
> Subject: [IBDI] Porting to other OS'
>
> Apologies in advance if this has been asked already, but has anyone on the
> project tried to get the IB server components to build under *BSD? I'm no
> expert on UNIX porting, so I'm afraid I wouldn't have much to offer but a
> decent test environment and a willingness to do documentation. I am very
> excited by the prospect of IB going Open Source though. I currently use
> MySQL to backend all of my web servers, but it's lack of a full SQL syntax
> has reared its ugly head again and again. I also tried PostgreSQL and found
> it wanting. I've played with IB on NT (yuck!) and it seems very capable.
> Bravo to the development team on their product.
>
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