How dramatic a topic. Anyways, I just send of an email to the PDO list, where I CC'ed a long list of developers from the community and RDBMS vendors. I hope that this will become the starting point for work on a PDO version 1.1. This will hopefully will just be the first step towards even bigger things to come, but lets not get ahead of ourselves. I really think that today we have more developers and vendors interested than ever. Now we just need to figure out how to work together within the PHP development and legal model. But recent discussions, especially with various vendors, have made me more hopeful than ever that we have a chance to make it happen. Please join the discussion if you are interested.
That being said, I wanted to make a few additional points. Who did I include or know about: I contacted Ulf from Sun. Hoping that Sun can step up for MySQL and PostgreSQL. I contacted David from Microsoft and Mohammend from Sybase. Since Timm is maintaining the sybase extension, he was also included. I also included Kellen from IBM and Christopher Jones from Oracle. Grant from Ingres was also included. So was Marius and Milan who have expressed an interested in Firebird (I do not know anyone from the Interbase development team). Patrick was included for ODBC support and Scott for SQLite. Obviously several key people from the PHP community are hopefully still subscribed to the PDO list like Wez, Ilia and Marcus.
I choose sending a CC to the PDO mailinglist, in spite of the fact that its mostly inactive today, because I think most vendors will appreciate a more focused mailinglist. I also do not want to fill internals with a lot of posts about this, since we currently have PHP 5.3 to talk about and this effort will obviously not produce any code within the timeframe we have set for a PHP 5.3 release.
I also ask people to stay realistic at this point. Lets not get ahead of ourselves, but work on the basis of small steps, that benefit everybody even if things do not continue afterwards. The first such step I see is expanding the test suite. Even if we in the end do not introduce a compatibility mode, the test suite will at least help documenting the differences.
Sorry but yuck - your captcha took 4 reloads to produce any legible text! Not a fan!
Big fan of PDO though - keep pushing :-)
Really happy to see that someone is interested in the future of PDO.
