Re: Basic DB/MDB Question

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:31:57 +0100, Lukas Smith <lsmith@php.net> wrote: > Justin Patrin wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:13:46 -0800, Colin Ross <colinross@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>Whats the difference in these packages? > >>Do they server different purposes? Is one 'better' or planned to > >>superceed the other? > >> > > > > > > Well...it was AFAIK the plan to make MDB2 DB2 once it's stable, but I > > don't know if that will happen.. > > This is no longer the plan. > Essentially Daniel and I discussed last fall that we will try to push > MDB2 to a stable release for 2005. DB2 will likely come in 2006 and be a > PHP5 only version which will be heavily realiant on PDO. However I am > probably not going to work on this, because as a PHP5 only package it > will have to use exceptions, which I personally am unwilling to use in > PHP libraries. > I see...and on top of this DB_DataObject is going to become DBDO, a PECL extension which builds on top of PDO. I'm just so confused as to where I'm supposed to go now. ;-) -- Justin Patrin