RFE: php5 variant for shared PDO

[jwthompson2@…]

It might be helpful to have a variant to allow for a shared version of PDO.

variant shared-pdo {

configure.args-append --enable-pdo=shared

}

[jberry@…]

Is there any problem with just making this a default? As I understand the following (http://us2.php.net/ pdo) PDO defaults to enabled by default. Making it shared by default shouldn't hurt??? Thoughts?

(We try to do our best to have fewer variants, if possible).

[jwthompson2@…]

It might be best to make it the default since that would allow for PDO to be upgraded by simply calling "pecl upgrade pdo" instead of having to recompile PHP for new versions of PDO.

[dluke@…]

reassign to new maintainer

[ryandesign@…]

I am unsure of the implications of switching from static to shared PDO. ("If it ain't broke, don't fix it.") I am wary of allowing upgrading PDO separately from PHP. Can the reporter or anyone else explain what functionality the current php5 port implementation does not offer, that switching to shared PDO would provide?

[nox@…]

I think something better would be to be able to disable PDO. That way we could install PDO through PECL.

[nox@…]

Oh, didn't see in the comments that a shared PDO would do the same thing, my bad.