Re: Advice on design issues (long)...

"Lukas Smith" <smith@dybnet.de> wrote in message news:008a01c1d2fb$952b4630$4d00a8c0@vandal... > > There is currently an effort underway to merge Metabase with PEAR DB. > I have just commited the first code into the pear cvs (package is called > "MDB" for now). The merge is still not complete. But the idea was that > this merged DB abstraction layer could down the road be ported to C ... > the sooner the better. ive downloaded alreay. i keep track of development of PEAR::DB, Metabase and ADOdb. > In terms of how to abstract things, its quite obvious that Metabase is > very far ahead (is there even something similar in other languages?). So > I guess Metabase, or MDB when its ready, will be the best place to turn > to if you seek this knowledge for a C Extension. the abstraction work is primarily done, the blob spec is the main thing pending. the hard part now is producing a set of test drivers. > Anyways if you are interested then you may want to join the discussion > on this new package. All discussion goes to the binarycloud, metabase > and pear-dev mailinglists, since there is no dedicated mailinglist for > this project, but all of the above the mailinglists are participating. im an active lurker on the binarycloud and metabase lists. i throw my $0.02 in periodically. l0t3k