Re: Re: [metabase-dev] RE: [PEAR-DEV] New Metabase Aniversary release

Hi, * Manuel Lemos wrote: > > dictatorial way of "There's only place for the one and only > > DB abstraction layer". > Nobdoy is dictating anything, It seems to me that it is. > If you only have one abstraction package that (almost) everybody uses, ACK. > This is why for Perl users to stick only to DBI, Java JDBC, Python > Python-DB, Windows languages ODBC/ADO, etc... I agree with you on this, but if you look at (at least) Perl, you see that there are plenty of DB abstraction layers that co-exist inside CPAN. Of course the majority of users use DBI -- and I expect that the majority of PHP users will end up in some years using only one DB abstraction layer. But indeed that does not give anyone the right to say "Because it will be one time in the future that everyone uses Metabase, there's no right for PEAR::DB to exist anymore". For me, it's a very dangerous step. -- PHP-Schulungen in Frankfurt und München! Mehr Informationen? >>> mailto:bjoern@thinkphp.de