At least trim the crap please ....
Stanley Sufficool wrote:
Sent my request 2 days ago, still no answer. I will try again.
PHP lists are not particularly well 'manned' and some activity can wait a while,
but it is also quite common for requests not to get through at all.
The PDO list has had no activity for about 2 months and the listed PDO
devs do not respond to e-mails. PHP says to send patches to the devs,
but this seems to be a no-go.
The latest thread is from last month, and is asking for help to clean up the
wiki and agree on a way forward. The problem - as always - is that PDO is
somewhat restricted in what it is supposed to be doing, and so at present it is
clear that we need to maintain BOTH generic drivers and the PDO one. The current
restrictions on PDO do not allow it to handle the a number of functions that are
possible with the generic drivers, so this reduces the incentive to work on
improving PDO. I had spent a bit of time looking to see if I could actually fix
the pdo_firebird driver so that it would work with potgress and mysql, but it
seems that this is not practical, so personally I'm happy staying with ADOdb
since it IS working and does a lot more than PDO is even road mapped to do.
A decision needs to be made as to the major route forward. Developers working on
the generic drivers are adding features which would be MUCH more appropriate
implemented in PDO and would then be standardized across all databases. But
there is no agreement on doing that, and at present there are only a small
number of databases working to a reasonable level in PDO.
Lukas is calling for a meeting in Europe to discuss these matters later this
year, but I think that we need to decided where priorities are for PHP6 and
either drop PDO in favour of an alternative method, or push PDO as a full
replacement for the generic drivers?
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