RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: one abstraction layer (my proposal for)

Hi, Well I do have a little problem. As several people have stated, this proposal will take a fair amount of time to complete. I for one can't do with the "core" features alone. We (as in my company) really need a db abstraction layer now (soon). That was the reason we decided to make the move to Metabase. Even in Metabase there have been little things missing that I need (you can read up on that on the Metabase Mailinglist). So when I extend Metabase to what we need I thought I could also do some improvements to the API. It was suggested that metabases features are to be included into Pear DB. So I thought there is no reason not making this new API a Pear compatible API. But I really do not have the time to go into Pear DB and write everything that Metabase has and that Metabase is still missing a new. Anyways I will do some benchmarking once I am done with the next major software release of my company. There I want to see if switching to get*() type functions in Metabase (which I have already written) the lack of speed myth about Metabase can be done away with or not. It seems to be that this is the main reason why a couple people push for a rewrite with a little cut and paste here and there (I do not mean "with a little cut and paste here and there" as a negative thing!). Is this observation correct? If it turns out that a rewrite with a little cut and paste here and there is favoured way after all for most people then I will probably only support this project a little more passively. This is not supposed to be a threat (I am in no position to make any threats anyways - its not like people stand in awe when they hear my name ... at least not in this list ;) ) or anything like that. I just want to make clear how and where I can help. I cannot wait 3 months to be somewhere that does not yet match metabase features. If that happens I will rather do some changes to Metabase in a couple weeks and port my application to Metabase. Best regards, Lukas Smith smith@dybnet.de _______________________________ DybNet Internet Solutions GbR Alt Moabit 89 10559 Berlin Tel. : +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax : +49 30 83 22 50 07 www.dybnet.de info@dybnet.de _______________________________