Re: [PDO] [RFC] An Idea for PDO 2
[email protected] (Christopher Jones)
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Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > Because there is no external established specification for database > which would be worthwhile following. Following the SOAP spec increases > the value of PHP, even if we think we could come up with a better SOAP > spec. For databases there is no such thing and if something like this is > written for PHP, then we would naturally expect all people to be able to > participate without legal restrictions. > > Now to get back to my other email. If Oracle/IBM/Microsoft/Sun get > together to write a database API specification for scripting languages, > submit this to some standards body, get it accepted and this standard is > convincing for us (by either becoming so ubiquitous that its simply > makes sense for us to follow .. or just because its really good .. or > both), then we might decide to follow that spec, even if its authored > under a CLA. The general intent was to build on what already existed (PDO code, PDO specification and PHP processes), and to be as light-weight as possible in the process (no legal entity, no sign-off on specifications, normal PHP decision making). > So again, get to work, show us the code and things will start > moving. We can't "show you code" with knowing the process the PHP community will accept. Chris -- Christopher Jones, Oracle Email: [email protected] Tel: +1 650 506 8630 Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/ Free PHP Book: http://tinyurl.com/f8jad