RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: PEAR::DB with Informix

> From: Juvenal A. Silva Jr. [mailto:juvenal.jr@uol.com.br] > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:21 PM > I'm really disapointed... I never thought that you would ignore a > contribution, or refuse to comment some possible improvement. I'm working > with PHP since version 2 and I had developed a lot of code with it, and > really, I never thought that I could be ignored like this. I work with > Informix/PHP for a long time (at least 5 years), fixing and helping to > debug > some PHP-Informix problems... I'm really very, very annoyed with this. > The PEAR::DB implementation for Informix is, at best, *silly*. It doesn't > support transactions, had problems with Informix BLOBs (TEXT and BYTE > fields - which by itself is a great drawback) and doesn't support the > getSpecialQuery method. > I have skills to help the improvement of this class a lot, and the means > to > test it in a controled environment and/or a production one. The only thing > that I was expecting was a word (or opinion) from it's maintainer or other > developers for the possible integration of my code changes, as normal in > the > Open Source community. > I had tried to contact Tomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> with this patches > four months ago, but I have no response from him, so I posted this > original > thread, and until now I got no response from the developers/maintainers of > this package. Hi, Regarding transaction support I found this in the logs for the informix driver. So this feature should be in the next release. Revision : 1.11 Date : 2003/6/30 9:44:5 Author : 'cox' State : 'Exp' Lines : +64 -2 Description : Added transaction capability to the ifx driver (thanks to James Kaufman <jmk@kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us>) To the other issues: It is always best to mail the mailinglist. This will increase the chances if your patch getting noticed. Also keep in mind that Informix is sort of "exotic" in the opensource world, so there are fewer people available to test your database. Actually I think there currently is nobody dedicated to Informix in PEAR atm nor do any of the core people have an Informix database (correct me if I am wrong). So the need your support all the more. However remember that opensource is mostly self interest driven. So you may have to nudge us all the more. Finally take into account that we may be doing other stuff (Tomas is working hard on making the pear installer bug free ATM so this takes away from his time to fixing and improving PEAR DB). So I ask a bit more patience for you. If you haven't done so already please mail your improvements in as finely grained patches as possible to this list. Regards, Lukas PS: if you can give us access to an Informix database this might also improve your patch in getting attention.