Re: Adoption of Metabase

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 16:27, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote: > On Tuesday 20 November 2001 07:41, Manuel Lemos wrote: > > > 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. > I a very ideal world this might work, but frankly I don't see this happening. yavo