Re: MDB2 package status

On 2011-02-16 05:34, A.L.E.C wrote:

Hi! MDB2 is one of Top10 PEAR's packages. I'm woried about it's development. Last stable release is almost 4 years old. There have been some fixes since then, but applied only in 2.5 branch, so it's not so stable as it should be after 4 years. Current development looks realy bad. It's very slow. There are many bugs and has too high requirement (PHP5.3) which was considered as a bug here on the list. I know it's a big package (including drivers), but maybe QA team could take care on Top10 packages or sth? I think another one of the problems is many of the key developers of MDB2 have moved to developing Doctrine2. Does MDB2 still provide any advantages over using Doctrine? If not, perhaps we should just recommend people use that project for DBAL/ORM. They provide a PEAR channel and have good documentation and an active community.

Cheer, Mike