On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:29:07PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi all! > Just a quick note to say that I've packaged up dbtcp, and am thus taking > over the RFA (#114398). It was pretty fun to package - a PHP4 module > that ostensibly needs to be built in-tree. However, it took a nice > hand-hacked Makefile to make it build out-of-tree, and even then it has > some fun issues. > PHP4 installs to /usr/lib/php4/<date>, where date is probably the > release date (it's 20020429, currently). I can work out the directory to > install to (php-config --extension-dir), but how should I handle this in > package relationships? If the date changes, php4-dbtcp suddenly becomes > useless - PHP's looking in a different directory for its extensions. > Anyway, the debs are at: > deb http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/~dstone/debian/ dbtcp/ > deb-src http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/~dstone/debian/ dbtcp/ However, I question whether such a package is appropriate for inclusion in Debian. There are already native PHP database drivers in Debian for all major database targets that I'm familiar with, including MS SQL; and this includes the php4-odbc package, which provides an ODBC interface to a significant subset of these databases. The only case I can think of where this would be necessary nowadays would be if you want to use a Windows ODBC DSN that points to a .mdb (Microsoft Access) file. That would simply be criminal... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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