Re: [PDO] [RFC] An Idea for PDO 2

On 14.02.2008, at 02:49, Christopher Jones wrote:

Andi Gutmans wrote: - JDBC like solution - Spec only as a set of interfaces/contracts (also under some collaboration agreement although there may be an option not to have that); drivers are fully implemented by the vendors; there is no PDO core in this option. I didn't like this for three reasons; we lose the advantage of having shared infrastructure for the various drivers which ultimately may make it harder to make fixes and/or improvements propagate to the various drivers, it may encourage less sharing of knowledge between the vendors, and we would need to deal with symbol namespacing issues to make sure the different drivers don't clash at runtime. We'd support this. From my last set discussions internally, we'd need the spec to be under CLA.

Ok, thats a problem. I do not see much of a chance to convince anyone on php.net to do this. But lets say its not under a CLA, how is this different than you guys using the ZE2 API? Is it just because Oracle considers anything closer to RDBMS to be more of a risk? If we say that we do not expect much direct collaboration at all from any of the concerned vendors, is that still an issue?

From my point of view, the interesting crux of the PDO discussions is that the development and release _process_ is the key factor in determining what risk (and hence need for CLA's and licenses) exists.

Right. The base line is that anyone can setup a PEAR channel and distribute PHP or C code on their own infrastructure. We are looking if there is a way to more closely integrate you guys into the php.net infrastructure. regards, Lukas