Re: Re: PEAR DB abstraction layers

On Apr 19, 2004, at 10:55 AM, Lukas Smith wrote:

Stefan Neufeind wrote:

First of all, I must admit that I haven't yet used either MDB2 or DB very much. But from what I experienced and heard MDB2 seems really superior in a number of ways - although DB has a few more drivers, as Lukas pointed out. And since both packages follow the same approaches, it would imho be a good idea if the MDB2-people (actually Lukas) and the DB-people could pool their resources and bring up a new MDB2-class with some additions from the current DB. To me DB_v2 would be more obvious as *the* DB-package to use for the reasons already several times in this thread. The current situation is a waste of dev-resources in my eyes ... somehow both teams should find a way to cooperate.

Actually Stefan points out something which I for some odd reason forgot: Its really up to the DB maintainers to decide this anyways.

I think that's probably the best thing to do; good idea ...

I must be having some wierd attachment to long threads for having started it. However since its already there I might as well use the feedback to clarify the situation .. transparency and all :-)

(heh :-)

So I guess I will go back to the drawing board and do what I should have done from the start. Ask the DB maintainers if they agree to this. (Note I have discussed this topic with various maintainers of DB before but not with a clear roadmap or timeframe in mind).

... and good luck. -- Paul M. Jones Savant: the simple alternative to Smarty. http://phpsavant.com/