Michael Maclean wrote:

> Antony Dovgal wrote:
>>> Here I'm talking about adding support for tokyo cabinets as a dba
>>> handler, not a complete interface to the multiple tokyo cabinet APIs.
>> 
>> Are you sure you want to add it to ext/dba?
>> dba is .. well.. dead, and it sound like a complete waste of time.

At the moment dba is the best place to add support for tokyo cabinets 
without introducing major features (or a pecl extension).

> 
> There is an item on the wishlist for PHP 6.0 about refactoring ext/dba
> to use PDO-style drivers. I intend to investigate this, unless someone
> else wants to.

That'd be great. In fact, the interface isn't really bad. It is surely 
missing multiple features, some of which are only supported by a couple of 
dbms, but the code behind is what really needs to be improved.

> In addition, I wrote a patch for Tokyo Cabinet support
> for ext/dba a while back, which Scott applied to PHP6 - I was rather
> hoping it'd end up in 5.3.x at some point, but he's been too busy. I'll
> dig out the patch if anyone here wants it, I haven't karma to apply it.

Cool.

Johannes, would it be ok to merge support for tokyo cabinets into PHP_5_3?

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert

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