> First, the Doctrine integration effort is happening *now*, and focusses > on two separate integrations: one for the Doctrine 1 series, and one for > the Doctrine 2 series. Doctrine 1.x works with PHP versions >= 5.2, and > many, many folks are using it with ZF successfully already (myself > included). If you search for blog posts that reference both ZF and > Doctrine, you'll find several dozen out there.
Yep, I knew that you're actively working on integrating Doctrine 1 in the ZF. I've been using Doctrine 1 for a while but it didn't meet my needs. As I said I tend to be a object bigot and to avoid dependency of the domain model upon other layers of the application. > Second, Doctrine2 is currently in alpha status. My understanding is that > they hope to have a stable release sometime in Q1 2010 (somebody correct > me if I'm wrong). In addition, there are a number of frameworks moving > towards PHP 5.3-only versions in the coming year: Symfony, Lithium, > Agavi... and ZF itself, in version 2.0, will require 5.3 and above. > Because so many projects will be adopting 5.3, there will be tremendous > pressure on the part of hosting providers to make 5.3 a standard option. > In fact, many Linux distributions and Mac OS X are shipping 5.3 as the > default PHP version. I don't foresee this as a problem at all. Okay, this would be great. Maybe this time hosting providers will migrate to the newer version of PHP sooner. > While I admire your enthusiasm to continue working on Zend_Entity, I > would like you to consider giving Doctrine a try -- I'd start with > 1.2.0. While it's not JPA compliant, it's more than usable, and much of > what you learn with it will still be applicable later when you are able > to adopt PHP 5.3 and Doctrine 2.0. If it still doesn't meet your needs, > then the next step would be to build a _consortium_ of interested > developers. We know from experience already that having a single > developer on Zend_Entity is non-viable, and would take much too long to > complete the project. Okay. By the way I think I'll start using PHP 5.3 and get started with Doctrine 2 Alpha. Andrea
