I know in discussions with the core Drupal developers last year the lack of PDO was also the hurdle for uptake. Perhaps a combined effort can find some sponsors for the work?
Regards Ronald On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Tim Soderstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Don! > > Not sure about the future of Drizzle + PDO (I'd love to see that myself) but > in the interim, you can always talk MySQL to Drizzle which means you should > still be able to use PDO. You won't be able to use all the crazy cool > features of the Dirzzle client API but can still use many of the other > Drizzle features. In other words, it should be usable right now without > having to do a lot of crazy stuff. > > *shrug* > > Tim > > > > On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:34 PM, 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 > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
