Re: [Web-meetme-devel] FW: PEAR::DB

[Mike C. <mik...@wp...>]

Dan:

Your thoughts are pretty much in line with mine. I do see the benefits 
of using ADODB. Perphaps we consider an install routine that looks for 
ADODB, and if not found, it offers to download and install.

Mike


Dan Austin wrote:

>With only an afternoon of reading up on both PEAR::DB and ADODB, I 
>must say I see alot to like about ADODB.  It's not all great though.
>
>On my systems (FC3 and RHES4), PEAR::DB is already installed, but
>ADODB is not.  We could bundle ADODB with Web-MeetMe, but it is just
>as large as our code, and some systems are likely to have it already.
>It could be listed as an external requirement, but I hate to offer
>an incomplete package.
>
>On the positive side, I do know of a few potentially larger 
>installations of Web-MeetMe, and they might benefit from the 
>flexibility to more to a commercial DB.  I also like the fact that
>LDAP is a supported 'DB', possibly allowing us to retire adLDAP.
>
>In any case I think this will be a 3.0 issue.  I need to read up
>some more on SVN and see how to split off the current code into a
>2.X branch and open a new trunk for 3.X
>
>Dan
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ryan Amos 
>Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:51 PM
>To: 'Dan Austin'
>Subject: RE: [Web-meetme-devel] PEAR::DB
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>Adodb is faster and more portable, but for a project like this I really
>don't think it matters. I just don't see this app needing to do enough
>complex SQL calls to really make a difference one way or another.
>
>Portability is really the main advantage of adodb; if you want to
>develop a project under MySQL or Postgres but have the option of moving
>to Oracle or IBM/DB2 later on. But because this project will probably
>never run on anything other than MySQL or Postgres, I really don't see a
>reason to port it to ado.
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:web...@li...] On Behalf Of Dan
>Austin
>Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:44 PM
>To: Web...@li...
>Subject: [Web-meetme-devel] PEAR::DB
>
>About two montsh back we discussed using ADODB in place of the current
>abstraction layer.  I've finally had a chance to look at the DB work
>Mike has done, and at least the last code he sent me is using PEAR::DB
>
>Looking into the background of this abstraction layer, I think it is an
>excellent choice and lends itself to a major clean-up of the scheduling
>code.
>
>So do we want to keep PEAR::DB, or should I look further into ADODB?
>
>Dan
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