RE: [PEAR-DEV] [M]DB roadmap (was Back to pear)

> From: Wolfram Kriesing [mailto:wolfram@visionp.de] > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:11 PM > can someone please explain what the roadmap looks like? If I > understood it right MDB is going to be "the new DB-interface". > But as i understand Tomas, he has planned to work on DB and implement > new ideas. > Does that mean MDB and DB will coexist forever or how should one > understand that? I am just curious to have kind of a plan for the > future. Thanks for explaining Well currently there is no roadmap. At Linuxtag there will be a meeting regarding the future direction of the database extensions. Hopefully the result will be that the database packages will need to spend a lot less effort on unifying the different API's and instead can focus on abstraction. So this will undoubtly affect this roadmap if it is to be written. At the same time I am currently in my R&D month and I am working on a bunch of things in regards to MDB. In the end I think the main thing that is holding things back is the lack of drivers for MDB. This area is slowly improving but not at the pace I was hoping. Regards, Lukas PS: As long as the ext API's are not unified I think there will always be people that want something lighter than MDB to do this work for them.