Re: Bug # 50755

From: Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:01:35 +0000
Subject: Re: Bug # 50755
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org> wrote:
>
> On 18.03.2010, at 03:47, Stanley Sufficool wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Christopher Jones
>> <christopher.jones@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Stanley Sufficool wrote:
>>>> I have attached patches for bug # 50755 on bugs.php.net. These also
>>>> cleanup to PDO DBLIB code to have less of a memory footprint and to
>>>> prepare for other feature additions such as multiple rowset support.
>>>>
>>>> I have compiled and tested on x86.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone review and provide feedback. Thank you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Stanley,
>>>
>>> Persistence is good, but you might need to use another way to find
>>> someone who has the skills, interest and time to review it.  Maybe ask
>>> around on IRC - #php-dev-win on Freenode?
>>
>> Tried IRC, no response. BTW, this is a Linux && Windows extension.
>>
>> IMO, PDO should be a big focus to get stabilized. People are jumping
>> ship for poorer performing abstractions in PHP (ADO, MDB2, DBA,
>> etc...) Hell, even the PHP bug tracker uses MDB2. That's a bit of a
>> disgrace to a blessed and built in database abstraction extension.
>>
>> I really want to contribute and have no problem with getting reigned
>> in with patch karma, but that will never happen if nobody cares to
>> review.
>
>
> Yeah its a horrible chicken and egg situation we have with PDO. Too few people around, actually
> it seems too few to even review your patch when it comes to SQL server. Maybe Matteo has some time
> to take a peek. Especially in the beginning its very helpful to get some feedback on patches before
> getting direct commit access. Then again for PDO we might be at the stage where we might not even
> have the resources to do that :(
>
If nobody around, then you should drop the support, or derprecate it,
because there is a common belief that the PDO is/will be the de facto
standard for high level db layer for PHP, so if its abadoned, then it
should be mentioned in the documentation at least.

Tyrael
> regards,
> Lukas Kahwe Smith
> mls@pooteeweet.org
>
>
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