Since there is no need to patch libsqlite3 for our purposes, and since
libsqlite3 ≥ 3.3.9 (which is our current requirement) is widely
available on distros, there is no reason anymore to bundle the library.
Besides removing the bundled libsqlite, and adapting the configuration
respectively, we also fix the use of the SQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA
compile time constant to detect whether sqlite3_column_table_name() is
available by a working feature detection (otherwise bug_42589.phpt
would fail). We also skip bug73068.phpt for libsqlite 3.11.0 to
3.14.1 which have a bug (<https://sqlite.org/src/info/ef360601>).
We also completely drop support for the obscure pdo_sqlite_external
extension (which could have been enabled on Windows only by passing
`--pdo-sqlite-external` to configure), since it is not needed anymore.
Furthermore, we remove references to the bundled libsqlite from
Makefile.gcov, CONTRIBUTING.md and README.REDIST.BINS.
The $Id$ keywords were used in Subversion where they can be substituted
with filename, last revision number change, last changed date, and last
user who changed it.
In Git this functionality is different and can be done with Git attribute
ident. These need to be defined manually for each file in the
.gitattributes file and are afterwards replaced with 40-character
hexadecimal blob object name which is based only on the particular file
contents.
This patch simplifies handling of $Id$ keywords by removing them since
they are not used anymore.
FTS3 is already enabled by default, and the other FTS versions
seems just to have been missed. Given that, the other FTS plugins
look like a low impact so worth a try. The current bundled libsqlite
versions in 7.x are proven stable already and support FTS5.
Features:
- native prepare/execute and bound parameters.
- finally supports binary data (via bound parameter api)
- full unicode/utf-8 support
Missing:
- UDF functions
- authorizer hooks for safe_mode/open_basedir restrictions
You need to download, compile and install sqlite3 yourself; we're not bundling
it (at least, not yet).
