Re: Remove sqlite2 from trunk

Kalle, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote:

2010/6/15 Ilia Alshanetsky <ilia@prohost.org>:

There is way too much code that uses ext/mysql and ext/mysql does not depend on a legacy library, I don't think we can remove it. As far as mssql, it is the one way to talk to Microsoft SQL from *nix systems, until there are good alternatives for a direct interface, I don't think we should remove it.

FreeTDS have an odbc wrapper, which means that it will work with ext/odbc and pdo_odbc aswell, the migration is rather simple here and i think it will be beneficial for both us and the users. As for mysql, I know libmysql is maintained, which is fine and all, but I think its time to deprecate it and consider removing it in favour of mysqli which we have been trying to promote. Like johannes said, a wrapper could be written in either native php, or in C level and im willing to help out with that, if thats the way we need to do it.

since ages a tool exists : http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Converting_to_MySQLi which converts calls to mysql in calls to mysqli. The result might not be pretty but works. As far as I recall it was tested with phpMyAdmin and worked.

Tutorials and articles that builds on mysql is unfortunate when we want to prommote mysqli, but if we want to change it, i think now is better than never, because people will continue to write articles about it if its still exists within the main distro.

Andrey