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Wednesday, January 17. 2007
PHP Pear DB Deprecated
Although I code most of my more complicated projects in Java, I still use PHP for simple projects and have many old applications still using it. When doing database work in PHP I use Pear DB to avoid built-in api changes, and because it is very similar to Perl DBI as well as many other database abstraction layers which I am already familiar with.
Recently Pear DB has been deprecated in favor of Pear MDB2. DB will continue to be supported with security updates, but new development has moved to MDB2.
Recently Pear DB has been deprecated in favor of Pear MDB2. DB will continue to be supported with security updates, but new development has moved to MDB2.
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Have you used MDB2? The last time I looked at it, it was still marked as ~x86 in Gentoo, and that scared me :)
This doesn't reflect the quality of MDB2, but appears to be bad packaging in Gentoo. The package in Gentoo is a major revision behind and the maintainer is non-responsive after months of stability reports. Consider installing the latest MDB2 manually and ignoring the Gentoo package, or helping out getting the Gentoo package up to date.