[php-maint] mssql issues?

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 09:05:12AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > > Does anybody remember/know what issues mssql module has?

> > It's absurd and redundant?

> > > Revision 835 contains mssql module packaging in trunk.  If there are no
> > > objections we can put it into next unstable upload.

> > I object.  We should not be shipping both the sybase and mssql modules, they
> > speak the same protocols and use the same underlying library.  If there is a
> > reason to clearly prefer one module implementation over the other, we should
> > choose that implementation and provide a clean upgrade path for existing
> > users; if there are bugs in both we should work with upstream to address
> > those bugs in one of them so that we can make a clear choice.

> http://bugs.debian.org/329065
> - works with mssql, doesn't with sybase_ct

> And mssql comes with PDO extension:

> http://php.net/manual/cs/ref.pdo-dblib.php

Sure.  I'm familiar with other limitations, myself; I don't object to
*switching* to the mssql extension, I just object to shipping *both*
extensions.  I.e., I would be perfectly happy with rigging the php5-sybase
package so that it contains the mssql.so extension, and focus all
improvements on that extension (and recommend to upstream that the other
"sybase" extensions be dropped/merged).

Indeed, now that we have the /etc/php5/conf.d mechanism, this seems quite
practical for us to do.

I'd even be more than happy to do the work and test it if there's a
consensus that this is the correct solution, because it would save me the
trouble of patching the sybase_ct extension to support everything that I
need it to. ;)

> Also I will try to get more details from reporter of:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/87063

Hmm, this bug number isn't found.

> P.S.: Steve, sorry for that previous direct email, it's early morning :-)

No worries. :)

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