Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] MDB2-2.0.0beta5 (beta) Released.

I think a larger problem is that package maintainers are even faced with the problem of having to support multiple DB API's. With the introduction of PHP5's interfaces I think a good idea would be to standardize a basic DB API and require DB packages to implement said interfaces so package maintainers can depend on a unified API (arguments about who is faster at what aside). Also, IIRC, MDB/MDB2 both have DB compliant interfaces. Though I could be wrong as it's been a while since I've looked into the other abstraction layers. --Joe On Jun 8, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:

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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