MDB2 development has been a lengthy process indeed. As a matter of fact development began back in the summer of 2003. Now two years later the fact of the matter is that MDB2 has been useful for production purposes for the past 1,5 years and all that really stopped it from going stable is the final decision to mark the API as stable.
That is not to say that the past 1,5 years were wasted on API changes alone. Alot of things where tweaked, performance improved and useability drastically improved. Most PEAR modules that can talk to a database support MDB2 natively etc. However life as an MDB2 user was full of suprises (not as much for those that actually read the changelog) on every update and I think its really about time this ends.
So I am finally dropping the idea of PDO API compatibility once and for all. …
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