I use Zend Framework and Doctrine bundled together quiet frequently. If I can be of any assistance in this new direction, I'm most certainly interested in helping.
In the short term, I have some code to boot Doctrine is a Zend_Application_Resource with configuration, if anyone is interested. On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[email protected]> wrote: > -- Georgy Turevich <[email protected]> wrote > (on Friday, 30 October 2009, 11:31 AM +0300): >> I have not understood. The component will be developed by other people? Or it >> is discontinue for ever? > > Discontinued. > > All development was being done basically by Benjamin himself, and my > team is simply too small for me to provide him much additional support > without having it affect other projects. We have considered in the past > writing an ORM, and the conclusion has always been that we do not have > either enough expertise or resources on our team to undertake it. I was > willing to let it be a community effort, but it would have taken a > dedicated team of volunteers (a) to make it happen in a reasonable time > frame, and (b) to provide ongoing support for it. > > Benjamin got to a point where he realized he'd finished about 50% of > functionality, and likely had another 4-6 months before it was > releasable. At that point, we'd be gearing up for ZF 2.0, which would > mean he'd need to start rewriting to make use of PHP 5.3 features. It > was simply a very daunting task, and one he wasn't getting much help > with. > > Additionally, there's the fact that Doctrine is becoming a key part of > the greater PHP ecosystem. Agavi and Symfony ship with it. I've seen > tutorials for using it with CodeIgniter, Cake (and the new offshoot, > Lithium), and of course ZF. Considering that many developers will be > using it in other projects, it makes for a natural migration point -- > migrate your models from one framework to another in order to make use > of a different MVC or components. It simply makes sense *not* to > reinvent the wheel here, and instead spend some time doing formal > integration with Doctrine in order to leverage its community of > developers. > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > Project Lead | [email protected] > Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ > -- A.J. Brown web | http://ajbrown.org phone | (937) 660-3969
