[MacPorts] #22745: php5-odbc: iODBC support (was: php5 with iodbc support)

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#22745: php5-odbc: iODBC support
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 Reporter:  emgillis@…          |       Owner:  ryandesign@…           
     Type:  enhancement         |      Status:  assigned               
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                         
Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.8.1                  
 Keywords:                      |        Port:  php5-odbc              
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

  * status:  new => assigned
  * port:  php5, php5-odbc => php5-odbc


Comment:

 php5 used to use Mac OS X's iODBC support; in fact there was no way to
 turn it off. I removed this in r58589 when updating php5 to 5.3.0_3 in my
 continuing effort to make php5 install only the core functionality and
 move other features to separate ports. When I created the php5-odbc port
 in r58581 I made it use unixODBC instead of iODBC because there is a port
 for unixODBC and there is not a port for iODBC, and [wiki:FAQ#ownlibs
 MacPorts policy] says we should use libraries provided by MacPorts, not
 libraries provided by Mac OS X.

 Having separate php5-iodbc and php5-unixodbc ports is not appropriate,
 since they would both be installing the same php module, just linked to
 different libraries. Instead, we should continue to have just the single
 php5-odbc port with variants for which ODBC library to use.

 Can a port for iODBC be created? If so, I can make a variant in the
 php5-odbc port to use that. If a port cannot be created or there is a
 reason why it should not be created, I can make a variant in php5-odbc to
 use Mac OS X's iODBC.

 I don't use ODBC and have no idea about the relative merits of unixODBC
 and iODBC. Is there a strong consensus that one is better than the other?
 If so, I should make that one the default.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22745#comment:4>
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