Re: general questions

Hello, Peter Bowyer wrote: > > At 09:54 AM 11/29/01 +0100, you wrote: > >Please keep backwards compatibility. PEAR DB is already used by > >a lot of people in production areas. Breaking BC will be the worst > >thing we can do. > > PEAR DB also has the best API around - I think the whole point of this > discussion is to rewrite Metabase as the PEAR DB (and hopefully speed it up > in the process?) and not to put Metabase in instead of PEAR DB???? Once again, that is not the goal for now. The goal is to develop a PEAR-DB driver that interfaces with Metabase. Of course, to make it take full advantage of Metabase features you need expand PEAR-DB API because it does not provide any means to write truly portable database applications. Regards, Manuel Lemos