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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List (Summary)
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre)

On 9/17/07, Keryx Web <webmaster@keryx.se> wrote:
> Pierre skrev:
>
> > Only ext/mysql and ext/mysqli use it. PDO is somehow "planed" but I
> > have serious doubts about the motivations of mysql to ever support pdo
> > like they support other generic connectors (see .net...).
>
> The first posts on the net from MySQL-people talked about mysqli first,
> PDO second and not the old mysql-functions at all.

And the facts are: mysql first, then mysqli and pdo "if it works well
when you are done".


> I think that if the PHP community really starts commit to PDO, like in
> teaching PDO *first* to beginners and using PDO for normal examples in
> blog posts and on book pages, the people at MySQL will make sure that
> PDO_MYSQL moves to the new lib as well.

Well, it is already the case, did not change anything.

> Also, is it not George S, Ilia and Wez that are listed as mainters of
> PDO_MYSQL?

Yes, as they do all the initial work. What's the point? Mysql was not
a maintainer/initiator of any of the .net db layers (or any other
language).

--Pierre