On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:16:19PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 11:56, Sobkowiak Krzysztof wrote: > > Hallo > > > > I need to use oracle with php4 on Debian? How can I do it? Could > > somebody [help me] build php4-oracle package? > > Thanks > Can you not use ODBC and the libphp-adodb package? > Furthermore i'm interested as to why there are two packages called > libphp-adodb and libphp-phplot. Which seems to break with the php4- > naming scheme that the majority or packages used. Hence i have CC'ed the > maintainers. Of course there is merit in maintaining upstream namers, > but inconsistency isnt half confusing :( I believe the 'php4' prefix is specific to packages that are derived from the php4 source package; AFAIK, most of the PHP-related packages that come from other sources do not share this prefix. I would prefer not to see package names encode the version information of *other* packages. libphp-adodb seems quite reasonable to me. As for using ODBC with Oracle, does Oracle ship an ODBC driver for Linux? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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