[CentOS-devel] php 5 and MSSQL

Tue Nov 28 00:36:41 UTC 2006
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Kevan Benson wrote:
> Is there any interest in adding MSSQL to php 5?  It's fairly easy to modify 
> the spec to produce this (I've done so in a previos version already), and 
> I'll volunteer to make the changes if there's consensus it's worth doing.  
> 
> FreeTDS is required to build mssql support, and it's currently provided 
> through rpmforge.  I assume everyone would prefer to have the required 
> library exist within centosplus so php-mssql could be installed without 
> requiring a library from an external repo?

licensing issues will prevent CentOS from shipping freetds stuff.

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