Re: Adoption of Metabase

On Tuesday 20 November 2001 07:41, Manuel Lemos wrote: Hi Manuel, > I don't have the time or motivation to develop things for PEAR just > because it is funny to cooperate. I am no longer a college student so > I don't have plenty of free time to spare. What I do is because I > need the things for my job. If I am not selling what I do, I don't > have a problem with sharing. That is what I am doing with Metabase. That's the same here. At least me I'm here to develop stuff that I later use in my work, so indirectly you and me are making money with that as it helps our work to be more productive. > One thing is certain, I don't want to go where I am not wanted. If > there is no interest in integrating Metabase in PEAR, fine. If not, I > don't have a problem with that. From the silence of PEAR core > developers, I am afraid there isn't much hope from their side to > cooperate. At least I made an honest attempt to cooperate. It will be very nice to have a unique abstraction layer where all of us contribute to. But in my opinion to impose MetaBase isn't they way to go. PHPLib, ADODB, PEAR DB all are good developments with their community and their developers, and trying to drop all of them with Metabase is a crazy idea. The only exit I see of the multi abstraction layers problems is trying to join all those communities and start a new development from the ground. The code is almost all written so only need to glue it to meet the specs of the new resultant layer. Then each team could provide their own wrappers to make things easy to their users. That's IMO a cooperative behaviour. Tomas V.V.Cox