From:	Lukas Kahwe Smith	Date:	Mon Apr 28 15:57:16 2008
Subject:	Re: [PDO] PDO version 1 improvements

On 28.04.2008, at 23:08, Andi Gutmans wrote:

> - Full blown Metadata APIs ala JDBC (important for higher-level DB
> layers).

> - A class for administrative functionality which can come in handy for
> projects like phpMyAdmin.

For these two points I am wondering if these could also live in PHP  
userland. We have bundled PEAR code in the past, but none of the PEAR  
code was really aligned with the feature set we were planning as part  
of internals. I think stuff like this is tricky to really get right on  
all variations of databases so I think its better to keep them in  
userland to make it easier for end users to update (or even hand tweak  
things).

regards,
Lukas