Re: [External] : Re: New PECL Extension, mysqlnd based

Hi,

It would probably be better, I agree, and there are some pull requests pending* for some of those changes, but we did not get any comment in months so we better ship them separately so that user can try them and use them, and we can work out fixes and new code.

Also, we're introducing some new dependencies that are not necessarily well welcomed in the community ( I did understand that. ), for example on the krb5 or sasl libraries, so maybe having a separate extension would make it a bit easier.

Any further comment or suggestion is really appreciated.

Thanks


  *   https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6447

From: Christoph M. Becker <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2021 2:29 PM
To: Filip Janiszewski <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [External] : Re: New PECL Extension, mysqlnd based

Hi Filip,

On 22.04.2021 at 10:23, Filip Janiszewski wrote:

> I would like to publish a new extension on PECL, the proposed name is mysqlnd_ngen (where ngen stands for next gen) and it would contain mysqlnd, mysqli and pdo (forked from php and bundled in one extension with building scripts that will prepare the 3 extension builds which the user can load into php instead of the original version in the repo) with a bunch of modifications that Oracle (Where I work and on behalf of which I'm submitting the request) is providing and that are expected to be used from hopefully community and certainly corporate users. (Like, support for specific auth mechanism like kerberos, or support for high availability, topology discover etc).
>
> I can login to PECL (fjanisze) and I saw that before submitting a new package request I should inquiry this list for comments, so here I'm, please comment for further details or suggestions on different names - The maintainer of the repo would be me and the extension will be up to date with php-8.0.

Wouldn't it be possible to add these modifications to the bundled
extensions?  It seems to me that would generally preferable over new forks.

Also, is there already some public repo available for mysqlnd_ngen?

Thanks,
Christoph