On 09.11.2024 at 17:18, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> there has been some discussion about this in a GH issue[1].
>
> TL;DR: building ext/ldap against Oracle LDAP had been supported, and is
> theoretically still supported, but is apparently broken for a while.
> The Oracle LDAP implementation is part of Oracle Instant Client, and
> uses an older LDAP API; apparently, there are no plans for updating
> this. So users are almost certainly better off to build against
> OpenLDAP (and if they need OCI8, to build that as shared library, and
> load after ext/ldap).
>
> However, so far no further steps have been taken. Since it appears that
> there will be a PHP 8.5, I think it makes sense to deprecate building
> against Oracle LDAP (instead of silently dropping in PHP 9).
>
> I should note that the ldap_connect_wallet() function, available only as
> of PHP 8.3[2] would also be part of the deprecation, as well as other
> existing Oracle LDAP specific features.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> [1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/15051>
> [2]
> <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_functions_with_overloaded_signatures#ldap_connect>
Since there has been no feedback so far, I would like to go on with a
deprecation RFC. As this deprecation doesn't seem to be highly
controversial, nor requires an eleborate justification, I like to
request permission to add it to the general "Deprecations for PHP 8.5"
RFC[1] which is still in draft status (although it erroneously says
"Pending Implementation").
[1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_5>
Christoph
