Comment 23 for bug 240519

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 240519] Re: sybase_* functions missing in php5-sybase for hardy

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:30:01PM -0000, knb wrote:
> It has been true in the past that sybase and mssql server shared a
> common code base, a common api and a common transfer protocol. However
> this is no longer the case for at least 10 years.

That's irrelevant given that there's only one library implementation in
Ubuntu that talks to both of them (FreeTDS).

Bugs in the individual PHP extensions notwithstanding, there's no reason to
ship separate packages for each server type.