Re: pearifying metabase

Manuel Lemos wrote: > > Hello, Hi Manuel, > "Tomas V.V.Cox" wrote: > > > > El mié, 23-01-2002 a las 19:53, Lukas Smith escribió: > > > Yeah, > > > > > > Alex asked me to CC everything to the binarycloud list as well ... > > > But I was wondering if even the pear-dev mailinglist would rather not > > > have this dicussion in there ... now it is more important that the > > > people that want to be involved can follow my or better our progress. > > > > If I didn't understand wrong, the goals are to pearify Metabase and > > commit it to PEAR no? If so, IMHO the correct place is here. Also I know > > that guys from other abstractions layers track this list. > > Not yet. Until there is a definite go for the merge process, I don't > think it makes sense to commit anything to PEAR now. Yep, I wasn't talking to do it until there is something :-) > Now, it is the time to make a proof of concept: wrap PEAR-DB API around > Metabase and demonstrate that it works while it can be expanded to > handle Metabase features that PEAR-DB does not yet provide. Well the effort should be in both ways: one for PEAR API to have the Metabase Features and other for Metabase to be able to handle features that PEAR DB has (apart from the API), ie: - Abstracted DB errors - Some feature emulations - PEAR Error support (setErrorHandling, pushErrorHandling, expectError, etc) - Some missing drivers in Metabase like Sysbase, Frontbase, LDAP (sorry I don't have too much knowledge of Metabase to be more verbose) Perhaps when Lukas presents the things that both have missing and how to adopt them, the picture will be completed. > What would help from your side is some conformance tests that you can > run on PEAR-DB API so we can validate that once it wraps around Metabase > it still works as intended, or else we will never be sure if merger will > really work and may slip fundamental flaws and limitations that may be > too late when we realize them. Some time ago I did a long test batery suitable for all the drivers (based in the specific driver tests Stig did long time ago). My recent work apart from building it is to ensure that all drivers pass it. You can find it in the PHP repository at: php4/pear/DB/tests/driver/ Just edit the setup.inc file, put your DSN and launch the tests with: php4# make test TESTS=pear/DB/tests/driver They test almost everything, well, I will add a missing one: multiple conections and nested queries. Tomas V.V.Cox