[webstack-discuss] Additional PHP extensions for SXDE

[Tracy, John]

Hello All-
I was curious as to what others are doing. Here's what I found in fifteen minutes of looking:
 
Red Hat includes unixODBC in Fedora (and thus I assume eventually in Red Hat Linux if not already done):
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS
 
Suse includes unixODBC:
http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/server10/i386/index_all.html
 
Ubuntu includes unixODBC:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/web/php5-odbc
 
Ubuntu includes FreeTDS:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/libs/tdsodbc
 
Debian includes unixODBC:
http://packages.debian.org/etch/php5-odbc
 
Debian includes FreeTDS:
http://packages.debian.org/etch/tdsodbc

UnixODBC seems to be pretty well accepted in the larger *nix community. If *Solaris were to bundle FreeTDS and Oracle drivers, I do think it would provide some interesthing marketing ramifications--"The *nix that connects to any database" (well, pretty close to any that you're likely to find in any sizeable organization...)
 
Short of a blessed package from Sun, I am willing to help create an download script that would add it to the existing packages. There's no sense in my taking the time to do it once for myself if that effort can be extended to benefit others. Nonetheless, I'd really like to see these included in Solaris.
 
Cheers-
John
 
 

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From: webstack-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org on behalf of Sriram Natarajan
Sent: Mon 10/29/2007 10:19 PM
To: Manyi Lu
Cc: Webstack Discuss
Subject: Re: [webstack-discuss] Additional PHP extensions for SXDE



Manyi
 Yes, I very much understand the importance of unixODBC drivers. That is
the reason, I initially wrote to this alias as well as to other Open
Solaris aliases to see if the integration is feasible.

 But, based on the response I got from database-discuss mail alias, I
sense some reluctance in bundling unixODBC or Free TSD client drivers
within Open Solaris.  I very much hope / wish that we actually integrate
these components within Open Solaris. We have even got a customer asking
us to integrate them.

thanks
sriram

Manyi Lu wrote:
> Sriram Natarajan wrote:
>> Hi
>>  Here is the latest update with respect to additional database support.
>>
>> 2) Database folks within Sun seem to feel that  unixODBC and Free TDS
>> products are sort of beta quality . However, I have not heard a
>> refusal to bundle these libraries yet. So, I am still waiting for a
>> final answer on this topic.
> May I ask who says unixODBC is of beta quality? It is the way to
> connect an ODBC client to a database on unix. On the other hands, none
> of Postgres, MySQL, Java DB that we bundle with Solaris include a ODBC
> driver which makes bundling unixODBC unnecessary. For connecting php
> with external databases, you still need unixODBC.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Manyi
>
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