Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] MDB2-2.0.0beta5 (beta) Released.
| From: | Larry Garfield | Date: | Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:00:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] MDB2-2.0.0beta5 (beta) Released. | ||
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On Wednesday 08 June 2005 01:31 pm, Joe Stump wrote:
> > The only future? I have built my entire application on
> > DB_DataObjects. If that gets deprecated I will cry a mighty river.
>
> I'm surprised you aren't already crying.
>
> --Joe
Low blow. :-)
Seriously, though, that's the main drawback of MDB2 right now, IMHO. Most of
the higher-level PEAR database packages (above the DB/MDB/MDB2 level) depend
on DB. If you want to use any of those (DataObjects, some of the pagers, the
FormBuilder tie-ins), then you're tying yourself to DB. I don't see MDB2
being "the future of portability in PHP" until the other tools support it
natively as well as / instead of DB. Until then, DB will remain the standard
for better or worse.
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