Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] [REPOST] Differences in VC6 and VC9 Windows builds and MSSQL Driver.

2008/12/31 Pierre Joye <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Richard Quadling
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> With regard to http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46971, how much effort
>> is needed (if any) to document that some functionality is not going to
>> be available in all windows builds? [DOC]
>
> Not sure to understand the term "effort" here. If something can't make
> it until 5.3.0-final for technical or legal reasons (like for mssql),
> then a simple note in the mssql page can do it.
>
>
>> When will VC6 be dropped? [CORE and DOC]
>
> After 5.3.0, be 5.4.0 or 6.0.0.
>
>> Admittedly, it is only an issue for Microsoft SQL Server (mssql and
>> pdo_mssql) and for Sybase_ct.
>
> Sybase_ct will be present in 5.3.0, my comment in the bug said it will
> take some time, not that it will never make it.
>
> Other affected extensions are likely to be snmp and aspell.
>
>> With Microsoft having their own PHP extension for talking to MSSQL
>> (http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/PHP-Driver.aspx -
>> though documented to only support SQL 2005 and 2008, not 7 or 2000),
>> could this become the standard alternative for php_mssql.dll (though
>> not PDO as the MS extension is procedural only, leaving ODBC as the
>> route for older versions?
>
> Yes, we are working on something to solve the sqlserver drivers
> problem on windows. More about that next year :)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Pierre
>
> http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org
>

Thank you.

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