Re: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List (Summary)

On 9/17/07, Keryx Web <webmaster@keryx.se> wrote: > Pierre skrev: > > > Only ext/mysql and ext/mysqli use it. PDO is somehow "planed" but I > > have serious doubts about the motivations of mysql to ever support pdo > > like they support other generic connectors (see .net...). > > The first posts on the net from MySQL-people talked about mysqli first, > PDO second and not the old mysql-functions at all. And the facts are: mysql first, then mysqli and pdo "if it works well when you are done". > I think that if the PHP community really starts commit to PDO, like in > teaching PDO *first* to beginners and using PDO for normal examples in > blog posts and on book pages, the people at MySQL will make sure that > PDO_MYSQL moves to the new lib as well. Well, it is already the case, did not change anything. > Also, is it not George S, Ilia and Wez that are listed as mainters of > PDO_MYSQL? Yes, as they do all the initial work. What's the point? Mysql was not a maintainer/initiator of any of the .net db layers (or any other language). --Pierre