Hi Lester,

Lester Caine ha scritto:

> After checking the windows machine with FB2.1 on I've confirmed that this has
> a VC8 based client, but it works perfectly with all of the legacy stuff and
> with the last PHP5.2.x ( and PHP5.3 with php_interbase ) snapshots that I have.
>
>

These are good news, from some POV, but can we say about "works
perfectly"? I'm glad that your apps works perfectly, but, as a serious
system developer, before starting a project, I'd be sure that "my"
application would works perfectly in "my" system.
At the moment I use and will use only Linux as target systems, but use
Windows as development and test system, so I need some degree of
reliability between two OSes worlds: suppose that my development models
(read coding habits) are quite different from yours, what can I say
about target reliability without a "standardized" tests system to check
deployment?
I've to design a new Web application with two databases that are used
from other two distinct Web apps and from a reporting Delphi
application. I know I'm not running on thin ice, but I scares greenhouse
effect...
I've read some errors and some oddities in PHP Firebird/Interbase
documentation so it's matter of try, stress and check

To Peter: how is possible to test a PHP set in Windows without MSVC and
recompiling?
See http://qa.php.net/running-tests.php
It's a strange situation: Delphi for PHP (and other maybe) releases a
PHP "ready-to-run" (no makefile), and I want to test Interbase/Firebird
(and eventually making other tests I think are missing), but qa.php.net
says only way is to "make test" in windows after *building* PHP. In my
devel machine I don't need and don't want MSVC installed (I need space
for DBs and other things), and don't want other Windows OS wasted.
In http://qa.php.net/write-test.php seems too simple, but there's
nothing about the script to use to run the test set I only want to.
I think that if you want an help, would be better to simplify (or
explain better): anyway, I can develop and see if works in a base
environment, you can test in all environ which knowledge of, simply, I
cannot afford. But a link to a starting php script is needed.

Ciao.
Mimmo.