Johannes Schlüter wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 22:10 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> At the moment dba is the best place to add support for tokyo cabinets >> without introducing major features (or a pecl extension). > > "without introducing major features" doesn't sound like a good way for > architecture decisions. This sounds a bit like "let's do it the way we > can trick the process" to me.
Well, it is just another handler :) > And there is a pecl extension: http://pecl.php.net/package/tokyo_tyrant > Which doesn't address the same problem. Tokyo tyrant is a DBMS internally using tokyo cabinets. There are cases where running tokyo tyrant is either not possible, an overkill or not the right solution to a problem, hence the request of the dba handler. >> That'd be great. In fact, the interface isn't really bad. It is surely >> missing multiple features, some of which are only supported by a couple >> of dbms, but the code behind is what really needs to be improved. > > Thanks for volunteering! :-) > Meh :) >> > In addition, I wrote a patch for Tokyo Cabinet support >> > for ext/dba a while back, which Scott applied to PHP6 - I was rather >> > hoping it'd end up in 5.3.x at some point, but he's been too busy. I'll >> > dig out the patch if anyone here wants it, I haven't karma to apply it. >> >> Cool. >> >> Johannes, would it be ok to merge support for tokyo cabinets into >> PHP_5_3? > > I didn't review it, yet, it sounds like a bit much, putting the review > on my todo. Would be great if it is merged. Thanks in advance. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
