At 00:55 20/3/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > > >MySQL access functions were in PHP long before it went open source. I'm
> > > >not saying that Midgard is on the same level of general usefullness
> > > >but just that the fact that there's an organization behind it
> > > >doesn't change it's licensing.
> > >
> > > MySQL was always opensource. It was perhaps not opensource(tm), but
> it was
> > > opensource, before people came along and put rules on what opensource
> means.
> >
> > OK, substitute OCI8, the argument stands.
> >
> > > I tend to agree to Colin's statement. I don't see the big added
> value (to
> > > everyone involved) in distributing midgard alongside PHP, and one of the
> > > reasons PEAR was born was for such extensions exactly.
> >
> > Not a problem for me. But how is PEAR being made available, then?
>
>We still don't have a good framework for having PEAR extensions that
>contain PHP extensions written in C in them. That was always the goal, it
>just hasn't been done yet. And yes, I concur with most others here, when
>that gets finished, the midgard stuff belongs there.
It probably won't get finished until people start using it. The midgard
people may be the right people for the job :)
Zeev
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