[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 on PostgreSQL experiances

[ries van Twisk]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 3:32 AM, Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] wrote:

> ries van Twisk wrote:
>> What I actually forgot to mention was this:
>>
>> I know there has been some discussion to remove ADOdb and DBAL from
>> TYPO3 core.
>> However if you remove both of the extensions from core then there  
>> is no
>> way to install
>> TYPO3 on a other DB then MySQL. This is because you need a running
>> installation
>> to get these extensions and a running installation needs MySQL  
>> (chicken
>> and the egg problem).
>
> I already proposed to add code to install tool to fetch these two if  
> necessary.
>

I don't think that that is really needed if and only have the ZIP  
versions of
both packages (ADOdb and DBAL) are available, this will save the core
developers time to work on more important tasks.

Ries