On 19/03/17 23:11, Rowan Collins wrote: >> Sorry but I just don't agree with that. We are talking about a feature >> for PDO that not many voters is interested in. That's completely >> different than a language change. The interest in other core >> extensions is often the same. > > Fair points. I'm not sure the RFC process as a whole works well for > specialist decisions - the same has come up with very technical Engine > changes.
While PDO has gained some traction and some projects have switched over to it, it would be useful to see what percentage of users do actually take the PDO route and and those that still stay with other abstraction options or remain with the generic drivers. My own preference is still to ignore it as a base and stick with ADOdb, which does seem to be growing again in support, but many projects have their own abstraction layers which don't rely on PDO or for the likes of things like wordpress only support MySQL anyway so don't need a cross database layer. None of the 'improvements' added to PDO recently do anything to improve it's standing, it still lacks a real reason for existing ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
