Re: MDB2 package status

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Michael Gauthier <mike@silverorange.com> wrote: > 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 I would love to see Doctrine2 (or any other good DBAL/ORM) become the de facto standard for database access in PHP like PEAR::DB and MDB once were. It would be nice if a more modern DBAL+ORM could actually become part of PEAR, making it more of an "official" PHP project, which I think was one of the main attractions of DB/MDB originally. That is probably unlikely to happen, so I suppose just recommending to discover channel and install something else would be the next best thing. Regards, --Matthew