On Apr 23, 2015 9:14 PM, "Arvids Godjuks" <arvids.godj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015-04-23 17:02 GMT+03:00 Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com>: >> >> >> On Apr 23, 2015 8:45 PM, "Arvids Godjuks" <arvids.godj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > My view is that this really needs a good discussion and regardless of the >> > desicions made - resource allocation to move it forward. >> > Whatever the intent was originally for the PDO and and regardless of what >> > the docs say about it, as Christoph has linked and quoted, the reality is >> > PDO is everywhere. Doctrine? Based on PDO. Yii 1/2 ActiveRecord? PDO. >> > Laravel's Eloquent ? PDO again. You get the picture. >> >> Not being in core is an issue with PDO. Sqlsrv is in pecl, maintained, and support both "native" and PDO. > > I do not think it's a "in core" vs "in pecl" issue at all. It's the fact that that it is data objects and it was new back in the day - the adoption of it was lightning fast. It was easy to make an abstraction over it, it fit to major patterns, like AR, like a glove. > Besides, installing DB modules for PHP under ubuntu is done by hand - it's not built into the "php5" package.
Just like many other. Not being in core brings actually more flexibility to the devs
