[TYPO3-dev] RFC - Remove DBAL in total

[Michael Miousse]

Le Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:15:41 +0100, Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >] a écrit :

> Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >] wrote:
>>> DBAL won't even install so I don't see the point in having it anymore.
>>> Also (in this regard) I'd remove adoDB and set it up as an "external"
>>> extension rather than an system extension.
>> 
>> No. It should be fixed, not removed.
> 
> agreed...
> But i have the feeling that noone really feels reponsible or at least
> changes to t3lib_db don't seem to take changes in dbal into account.
> 
> Thus we are raising a two-headed-monkey and the longer changes to class
> A are done without updating class B occur the greater the future
> problems will be.
> 
>> Lots of people use TYPO3 with other databases.
> 
> source?
> 
>  > We keep DBAL.
> 
> Maybe it could help if ALL database calls would be done via the DBAL
> regardless of what DB system is used? This would reduce the risk of two
> concurrent development trees.
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike DBAL in general, but I think it is
> bad practice to ship an extension as part of the core that does not work
> (I'm not talking of bugs).
> 
> I could supply a testing environment to keep the development going, if
> needed.
> 
> enjoy
> Mattes

we use dbal to implent Typo3 as a back door for open source.
when clients are satisfied about Typo3, we start talking about free 
database solution, linux ...

So dbal is prety usefull for convincing clients.