Hi Thanks for the response. Zdenek Kotala wrote: > Sriram Natarajan wrote: > >> Hi >> I am currently involved with WebStack project in OpenSolaris and would >> like to add more extensions for recently integrated PHP so that >> programmers can use our platform for development / production purposes. >> Based on the some of the feedback we received from some customers >> (outside Sun), it seems that we need to more database support within >> PHP and this requires databases client libraries like Free TSD , Oracle >> Instant Client and unixODBC to pre-exist on the system. >> > > > I understand that developers want to have Oracle install client there > and it is good idea. I'm not sure if we able to bundle it with > OpenSolaris, because there could be some license issue. > > I can work with our lawyers to find out what they think. Btw, this is what I see from their web site http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/ic-faq.html#A3666 and http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/index.html > We (database team) discussed unixODBC integration few weeks ago and we > made decision, that currently there is not much reasons to do it -> it > was put at the end of the TODO list. Somebody also complained about some > problems with this driver (I cannot remember). > > Then, we can leave this for now. > FreeTSD is nice project, but personally I'm afraid that it is not usable > for production system and we could have a lot of problem to support it > and integrate it into opensolaris. Do you know how many users wanted > this feature? > > Yes, Free TSD has been deployed successfully on their production web sites by some customers. I am not sure, if they would like me to name them here. Besides, can we not ship these libraries without committing to any specific support level ?
Besides my point is - lot of customers use PHP with MSSQL database. Now, if we don't have these client libraries (for example Free TSD or Oracle Instant Client ) installed within our Open Solaris, then our PHP integration becomes very much unusable and they will have to end up compiling another set of PHP bits by themselves by manually installing these client libraries (I don't have to tell you what a pain that is :-( ) thanks sriram > >> Now, I am not a database expert and I would like to hear your views as >> to can we add these databases within SXDE. If possible, I will be more >> than happy to work / assist with some one in Open Solaris database team >> to help with the integration of these libraries. >> >> Note: Please find below an email that I sent to webstack-discuss and >> sfwnv-discuss (where some one referred me to this alias.) >> >> thanks >> Sriram >> >> >> >> Sriram Natarajan wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> I am currently exploring the possibility of adding support for more >>> databases like MSSQL , Oracle within PHP. This would require some >>> database client libraries to exist in the system. So, I was wondering as >>> to what is the consensus for adding these client libraries within >>> OpenSolaris SFW repository. >>> >>> These are these 3 client libraries that I would like to initially target : >>> >>> - Free TSD -> http://www.freetds.org/ - Useful for connecting to >>> databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase >>> - Oracle Instant Client -> >>> http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html >>> - unixODBC -> open source ODBC Manager >>> >>> Note: I looked at the licensing requirement of these components and I >>> didn't notice any restrictions. >>> >>> Any thoughts / criticisms ? >>> >>> thanks >>> sriram >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sfwnv-discuss mailing list >>> sfwnv-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sfwnv-discuss >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> webstack-discuss mailing list >> webstack-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/webstack-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> databases-discuss mailing list >> databases-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/databases-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > databases-discuss mailing list > databases-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/databases-discuss >
