On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:

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>
> Philippe Makowski wrote:
>> Lester Caine [09-05-13 08.15] :
>>> Does the 5.1.6 build still have the regression bugs that were finally
>>> fixed around 5.2.7 ? 5.2.0 to 5.2.6 php-interbase are all faulty and
>>> should not be used.
>>>
>> if it is a PHP bug, perhaps, or you have to send a patch to Fedora
>> but in few days you will have the choice :
>> PHP 5.1.6 or PHP 5.3.0, it will be just a matter of choosing the right
>> repository
>
> 5.3 needs work to a lot of source code and most of us have now
> standardised on 5.2.x when working with Firebird. I've only just
> finished moving machines from 5.0 because of the bugs in the 5.1 builds
> and THAT exercise has taken 6 months so I'm not about to go to 5.3 any
> time soon. 5.2.9 is now stable with the 5.0 and in many cases 4.4 ported
> applications ... 5.3 is throwing up a lot more warnings - which could
> probably be ignored, but when one has clean applications, warnings need
> to be addressed :(
>
> So I'm just flagging up that 5.1.6 may give errors that were not present
> in 5.0.? - We need to run the Firebird test suite to confirm what is
> still present. And of cause 5.3 has not ACTUALLY been released yet and
> could be a few more weeks before they agree on the final changes? I do
> wish they would just get on and finish PHP6 - THAT is what we need
> rather than another bodge of PHP5 :(

php is in rc2 for version 5.3 and i'm glad that now firebird php
driver works with it almost out of the box on centos/fedora/redhat
http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2009/05/08/PHP-5.3.0-RC2-en

we must work on firebird related bugs also we must test php 6 ?
do you want to help with that

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