Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47423 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 59361 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2010 04:11:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Mar 2010 04:11:22 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 200.52.181.53 unknown Received: from [200.52.181.53] ([200.52.181.53:17509] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 8E/14-31664-869F2AB4 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:11:20 -0500 Message-ID: <8E.14.31664.869F2AB4@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Followup-To: php.internals Lines: 32 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:10:53 -0600 References: <1268900384.13435.692.camel@guybrush> <4BA28D7A.2080905@daylessday.org> <4BA299C9.3040902@no-surprises.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Posted-By: 200.52.181.53 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Commits to PHP_5_3 From: geissert@php.net (Raphael Geissert) Michael Maclean wrote: > Antony Dovgal wrote: >>> Here I'm talking about adding support for tokyo cabinets as a dba >>> handler, not a complete interface to the multiple tokyo cabinet APIs. >> >> Are you sure you want to add it to ext/dba? >> dba is .. well.. dead, and it sound like a complete waste of time. At the moment dba is the best place to add support for tokyo cabinets without introducing major features (or a pecl extension). > > There is an item on the wishlist for PHP 6.0 about refactoring ext/dba > to use PDO-style drivers. I intend to investigate this, unless someone > else wants to. That'd be great. In fact, the interface isn't really bad. It is surely missing multiple features, some of which are only supported by a couple of dbms, but the code behind is what really needs to be improved. > In addition, I wrote a patch for Tokyo Cabinet support > for ext/dba a while back, which Scott applied to PHP6 - I was rather > hoping it'd end up in 5.3.x at some point, but he's been too busy. I'll > dig out the patch if anyone here wants it, I haven't karma to apply it. Cool. Johannes, would it be ok to merge support for tokyo cabinets into PHP_5_3? Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert