Jochem Maas wrote:

>>Ard is the official maintainer and has done all the work on the PHP5
>>builds. He needed to maintain compatibility with Interbase because of (I
>>believe) paying customers, but we could not provide any good reason to
>
> not true. Ard has never used the interbase AFAIK. all his work on the
> extension was aimed at scratching an itch regarding firebird... but the
> extension already called ibase and the implemented featureset in firebird
> was at the time identical so he left it as it was and created fbird_*
> aliases of all the functions for neatness and to show that a split should
> be forth coming at some time in the future.

OK - but that was not the impression I got from him last year when I was
looking at doing php_firebird myself ;)
I was happy to keep Interbase compatibility because I thought he needed
it, but a Firebird 2.0/Vulcan driver may be a different story :)

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