On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:

> marius popa wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Anderson Farias <
> peixedragao@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> :~(
> >
> > yes we should act and create the php maintainers team
> >
> > I will write an leter and explain that is an wrong thing if they remove
> > ibase/firebird support from php
> >
> > and what must be done to stay inside
> >
> > ps:seems that politics won on php.net (ibm/sun/oracle/m$) and they
> really
> > want to kill firebird driver
> > and push their own PDO drivers
> >
> > this is an sad and sorrow day , php and firebird combo
> > works too well and now that there applications like phpbb3/jaws/bitweaver
> > makes me think that something is rotten in
> > php community
>
> To use the well worn phase - 'Don't Panic'
> While there are problems with getting heard inside the PHP community I've
> been
> annoying people there for years :)
> There is just as much ambivalence over PHP in Firebird as there is over
> Firebird in PHP :(
> The current situation has been explained on the firebird-php list, and as
> of
> the last hour or so, the situation is simply that the WINDOWS side of PHP
> needs some help getting out of a hole, and need people who can actually
> test
> Firebird to do so for them. The same applies to the other database that
> they
> do not have anybody using at their end.
>
> There is still the agro with PDO, and I'm not going to waste time trying to
> fix that myself, but watch this space ...
> http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/index.php?page=PHPDevelopment
> Perhaps at some point I'll even get around to compiling Firebird without
> the
> pigging M$ compiler :)

I will try to help you with mingw if you need to

http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/GettingStarted

I wil do some warm-ups with wxwidgets and flamerobin then i will try an
php5.x compile

I think i will use wine for this or windows2008 in an virtualbox machine
(worms in cage)
http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2008/06/windows2008guest-on-vmware-server.html

It seems that php developers are not well informed
from these stats i wouldn't call that firebird is not used anymore
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=9028&ugn=firebird&mode=alltime&&type=prdownload
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=php4-interbase
Or if we don't have too many bugs it doesn't seems that firebird php driver
is not used anymore ...
Of course I have to fix the open ones
http://bugs.php.net/search.php?search_for=firebird&boolean=1&limit=10&order_by=&direction=ASC&cmd=display&status=Open&php_os=&phpver=&assign=&author_email=&bug_age=0

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