Re: Re: Common DB Abstraction Layer: Re: [PEAR-DEV] Adoption of Metabase

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Martin Jansen wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:19:44 -0500 (EST), Joao Prado Maia wrote: > > >If PEAR::DB is not abstracting the database what is the purpose of such a > >library ? > > To ease the life of lot's of programmers. > I probably used a bad choice of words. What I really meant was: What is the objective of PEAR::DB as a database abstraction library ? To abstract as much as possible like Metabase already does, or to provide a unified API to databases and leave the implementation related to database specific to the user himself ? It's okay to choose the latter, but I believe we should have a unique position on something like this, so we know what we are working for. A statement like this will be very helpful when people come to the mailing list saying that PEAR::DB doesn't abstract LOB's or any other exotic feature, as we can just reply "that's not our objective". Anyway, I think this is a good discussion. Joao -- João Prado Maia <jpm@phpbrasil.com> http://phpbrasil.com - php com um jeitinho brasileiro -- Precisando de consultoria em desenvolvimento para a Internet ? Impleo.net - http://impleo.net/?lang=br