Re: PEAR DB and MDB development

On Fri Feb 14, 2003 at 02:0934PM +0100, Lukas Smith wrote: > I would really really appreciate it if bug fixes for PEAR DB would also > be send to me so that I can check if they also apply to MDB. Honstely, we cannot expect PEAR developers to fix bugs *and* send the diffs to a bunch of people afterwards, too. That's what the CVS commit list is for. And if you can't handle that list, it's your problem ;-). > Furthermore I would like to once again ask about how feature additions > to PEAR DB will be handled in the future. Pretty much all feature > additions I have seen in the last year or so to PEAR DB have been things > that have been feature candy IMHO that give PEAR DB a sort of query > builder functionality. autoPrepare/autoExecute and now the addition on > yet another place where prepared queries can be used to not have to > write out the entire query by being able to use prepare where you > actually don't intent to reuse the prepared query again. > > All of these changes don't belong in the core of PEAR's choice > abstraction layer; especially since we have 2 very capable Query > Builders now in PEAR that should make the "easy of use" fraction happy. There are a lot of situations where the query builders are overhead, but where the prepare stuff from DB is very handy. Anyways, I'm no expert in DB and MDB, so I'll stop here. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/