Re: [PDO] [RFC] An Idea for PDO 2

On 14.02.2008, at 02:49, Christopher Jones wrote:

>
>
> Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > - JDBC like solution - Spec only as a set of interfaces/contracts  
> (also
> > under some collaboration agreement although there may be an option  
> not
> > to have that); drivers are fully implemented by the vendors; there  
> is no
> > PDO core in this option. I didn't like this for three reasons; we  
> lose
> > the advantage of having shared infrastructure for the various  
> drivers
> > which ultimately may make it harder to make fixes and/or  
> improvements
> > propagate to the various drivers, it may encourage less sharing of
> > knowledge between the vendors, and we would need to deal with symbol
> > namespacing issues to make sure the different drivers don't clash at
> > runtime.
>
> We'd support this. From my last set discussions internally, we'd need
> the spec to be under CLA.

Ok, thats a problem. I do not see much of a chance to convince anyone  
on php.net to do this. But lets say its not under a CLA, how is this  
different than you guys using the ZE2 API? Is it just because Oracle  
considers anything closer to RDBMS to be more of a risk? If we say  
that we do not expect much direct collaboration at all from any of the  
concerned vendors, is that still an issue?

> From my point of view, the interesting crux of the PDO discussions is
> that the development and release _process_ is the key factor in
> determining what risk (and hence need for CLA's and licenses) exists.

Right. The base line is that anyone can setup a PEAR channel and  
distribute PHP or C code on their own infrastructure. We are looking  
if there is a way to more closely integrate you guys into the php.net  
infrastructure.

regards,
Lukas