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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] berkeley db XML
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Arnold,

  it is a license problem. Sleepycat (nowadays Oracle) wasn't willing to
have that stuff in PECL because they were financing it's development.

best regards
marcus

Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 12:36:31 AM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> What is the reason that the PHP extension for berkeley db XML hasn't made
> it into PHP (distro, pecl, manual)? Currently
> there only a short howto deep down in an oracle FAQ and very limited
> documentation. I think that is unfortunate, because
> using an XML db instead of a relational db, could greatly simply a lot of
> projects. But currently little know its existence
> and even less actually use it.

> Best regards,
> Arnold




Best regards,
 Marcus