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

Larry Garfield wrote:

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.

Yes. Daniel Rossi put in alot of work making DataObjects run with both DB and MDB2 .. so far there seems to be no interest by Alan to acutally puts this into an official release, which is quite a pitty. Once that is there, then FormBuilder should AFAIK work as well. Pager has MDB2 support (DB_Pager is deprecated), Cache does as well, Translation2 does, DB_NestedSet does. So there is only really a lack of OO interfaces based on MDB2: - MDB_QueryTool could be ported to MDB2 fairly quickly I would presume. - DB_DataObject appearently already has been ported to work with both DB and MDB2. - DB_Table .. I have not heard of anyone trying to stick MDB2 underneath that one. regards, Lukas