RE: [PEAR] [MDB] What is the current state of DBMS drivers?
| From: | Lukas Smith | Date: | Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:08:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PEAR] [MDB] What is the current state of DBMS drivers? | ||
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> From: Thierry Bothorel [mailto:thierry.bo@netcourrier.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:58 AM
> "Lukas Smith" <smith@backendmedia.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:
> 000f01c37d04$37b2ed00$4d00a8c0@vandal...
> >
> > There was once someone that wanted to write a driver, but that was
long
> > ago.
> > With MDB 2.x writing a driver should be easier, since things are
> > separated more clearily. I don't have Informix available on my DB
> > testing server and I doubt that I will find the time to write an
> > Informix driver unless I have a personal need for it. I am of course
> > willing to help anyone that wants to write one.
>
> Then the fact that the driver already exist in Metabase does not seem
to
> help much. Are they so different between Metabase and MDB?
Yes there are big differences.
However having an Metabase and PEAR DB to work off will drastically
reduce the time to write the driver. That is why the skeleton driver
describe in detail from which existing driver to best take the
functionality and what needs to be changed.
Regards,
Lukas