"Stig S. Bakken" wrote:
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> Joao Prado Maia wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Martin Jansen wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:19:44 -0500 (EST), Joao Prado Maia wrote:
> > >
> > > >If PEAR::DB is not abstracting the database what is the purpose of such a
> > > >library ?
> > >
> > > To ea
Joao Prado Maia wrote:
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> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Martin Jansen wrote:
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> > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:19:44 -0500 (EST), Joao Prado Maia wrote:
> >
> > >If PEAR::DB is not abstracting the database what is the purpose of such a
> > >library ?
> >
> > To ease the life of lot's of programmers.
> >
>
>
> I probably used a bad choice of words. What I really meant was: What is
> the objective of PEAR::DB as a database abstraction library ? To abstract
> as much as possible like Metabase already does, or to provide a unified
> API to databases and leave the implementation related to database specif
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Martin Jansen wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:19:44 -0500 (EST), Joao Prado Maia wrote:
>
> >If PEAR::DB is not abstracting the database what is the purpose of such a
> >library ?
>
> To ease the life of lot's of programmers.
>
I probably used a bad choice of words. What I
> Well I strongly need thoses $15 000 $ so
>
> What is the purpose ?
> As a "average php user/developper" I don_t really care about the "pure cross
> plateform/database issue" but I do care about a standard, clean, secure ("my-
> bugs-free") and easy way to use a database, and PEAR::BD + T
>Now for the $15,000 question: does anyone else agree with this ? If
>PEAR::DB is not abstracting the database what is the purpose of such a
>library ?
a) unifed API
You havn't to think about the name of the command to send a query,
connecting...
b) it offers helpful functionality
I.e. don't care
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:19:44 -0500 (EST)
Joao Prado Maia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Manuel Lemos wrote:
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> > > If we fixed these problems and more, we could talk about having
> > > a unified API. Otherwise for the Oracle OCI_ASSOC, I would prefer
> > > not to change it
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:19:44 -0500 (EST), Joao Prado Maia wrote:
>If PEAR::DB is not abstracting the database what is the purpose of such a
>library ?
To ease the life of lot's of programmers.
- Martin
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Manuel Lemos wrote:
> > If we fixed these problems and more, we could talk about having
> > a unified API. Otherwise for the Oracle OCI_ASSOC, I would prefer
> > not to change it for speed, Manuel would want to provide an emulation
> > layer, i would object because it's slow
