Re: [PDO] wiki clean up and potential in person meeting

Hi everyone,

Il 24/12/2009 08:22, Lester Caine ha scritto:
> Lukas - I think many of us are in the same boat :(
> I just don't have the time to dig deeply into php_firebird when I have a
> fully operational solution with ADOdb and generic drivers.

I've tried once to look at it and even trying to run the test suite 
against firebird was painful. The status of the driver is IMHO pre-alpha 
and it would need plenty of love to get in a working state.

> Without a GROUP of people who are interested in developing PDO, I am of
> the opinion that it should actually be pulled back out of the core since
> the generic drivers ARE being developed further, but some projects ARE
> also converting to PDO in the believe that it already provides a cross
> database compatibility which is not really the case?

I respectfully disagree: you're just biased because you are frustrated 
by the status of PDO_Firebird. Other drivers (SQLite, MySQL, PgSQL, OCI, 
DB2 maybe?) work pretty well and apart from some issues (e.g. CLOBs 
support in PDO_OCI) I still think that PDO should be core. It's 
PDO_Firebird that should be pulled out until someone can really start 
taking care of it.

> Perhaps a post on internals to the propose that and see if anybody else
> comes forward? I get the feeling that there are a number of developers
> who are very active pushing their own agendas, such as the
> 'improvements' in PHP5.3, and so other core areas such as the more
> fundamental PHP6 have now lost momentum :(

PDO is not seen as fundamental by many core developers. My permanent 
lack of time might not make me the best candidate to take the role, but 
with some help I should be able to make room for it.

I'd be also very important to have a meeting next year. If March fails, 
I'm confident I could organise something during the 6th edition of the 
italian phpDay in May.


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Matteo Beccati

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