RE: [PEAR-DEV] MDB & DB - was: Re: [PEAR] MDB debug

> From: Jeroen Houben [mailto:jeroen@terena.nl] > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 2:09 PM > >In June I am reserving R&D time. However I will probably focus more in > >layers that go ontop of MDB. The Manager will also get some attention. > >How much features additions to MDB will be considered is unclear. One > >thing that needs to happen before are functional versions of an odbc, > >Informix and Sybase/mssql driver. Unless I have them I cant start > >messing with features as the danger is too great to mess things up for > >these drivers without being able to test that. > Sure, I understand. Well I've been working with MDB for a while now and > I'm generally very happy with it. PEAR::DB still has some nice tweaks > like the stuff mentioned above, but that's just minor stuff. MDB is the > way to go. I agree that stable drivers are important, but if you want > the majority of PEAR users to switch to MDB I think that packages like > DataObjects supporting MDB is even more important. I mean, not many PEAR > users use anything else besides PG or MySql, but a lot of people use > DataObjects and they won't switch unless it works with MDB I guess. Well > I use them together in the same project but it's not how it should be > done. Good news! The layers ontop of MDB that I was talking about is exactly that: Porting DataObject to MDB. Regards, Lukas