Re: Adoption of Metabase (was Re: [PEAR-DEV]Re:Comparing ADODB with PEAR DB, Metabase andNative MySQL)

Hi James, Long time no hear :-) At 03:07 PM 11/20/01 +0000, James Moore wrote:

There is no reason why we cannot have Metabase and PEAR-DB and others if needed all in pear then the user can choose which api they prefer and which abstraction layer suits them better.

I thought that the whole advantage of PEAR was that there was going to be one and _only_ one database abstraction layer - it would become a standard, and prevent me from having to install 3 different ones to use all the programs I require.

FInally I hope you do port Metabase to PEAR as it will benifit both Metabase and PEAR, metabase due to the fact you will have more developers working on it and PEAR due to the fact that it will have a new database abstration layer which may suit some users better than the current PEAR-DB API.

Am I misunderstanding the term API? I always thought it referred to the syntax of the code not the features. Syntax-wise, I think PEAR-DB is much better, but in terms of features Metabase is about 5exp24 times ahead :-) Peter. -- Maple Design - http://www.mapledesign.co.uk