I wish I had time to contribute, but I'm massively overloaded as it is. And I'm unlikely to be talented enough in the first place.
I would love to help line someone's pockets who has both the time and talent, though. :) Don On 1/11/10 1:47 PM, Eric Day wrote: > Hi Don, > > PDO is certainly planned for Drizzle, we've just not had time to > work on it yet, and no one else has stepped up. I've not looked into > it too much yet, and whether this is something that should be done > entirely in PHP (based on the Drizzle PHP extension), or if it should > dip deeper and be part of the extension. > > I'd be excited to see progress on this and am willing to help you > work on it if this is something you would like to contribute. :) > > -Eric > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 01:34:56PM -0800, Don MacAskill wrote: >> >> I know I've asked a few people about this in person, but thought I'd >> take it to the list and see what's up. >> >> We're very excited about Drizzle, but we use PHP's PDO. I haven't seen >> much momentum around making the two play nice together, possibly because >> there might be a feeling that companies which use PDO aren't interested >> in the speed Drizzle provides (see: >> https://lists.launchpad.net/drizzle-discuss/msg00499.html ). >> >> We're a PDO-only shop, but we're also heavily speed oriented. The two >> aren't mutually exclusive - we're not using PDO because we use a lot of >> prepared statements (we use exactly zero), but because it's a cleaner, >> safer, saner way to interact with MySQL from within PHP. We had a net >> speed gain when we switched from our MySQL layer to our PDO layer >> (though it was small - I'll take whatever I can get). >> >> Not to mention it's a great way to be able to play with, test, or use >> other databases and interfaces, like, say, Drizzle. :) >> >> So, is there any interest in PDO+Drizzle? Is anyone working on it >> already? We'd be happy to sponsor development, whether it's already >> ongoing or someone wants to tackle it. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Don >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
