[TYPO3-dev] RFC - Remove DBAL in total

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Michael Greiner wrote:
> Dimitry comes also to the point to keep dbal but for a reason
> that didn't seem strong enough for some of us. He wrote:
> 
> "It should be fixed, not removed. Lots of people use TYPO3 with other databases. We keep DBAL."
> 
> In my opinion the main argument for or against dbal in the core has nothing to do with the number of people using it. I propose a more sophisticated approach. As Typo3 is free software, let it also be free no matter which system people want or have to use. To do so it is absolutely crucial to come up with a stable DB abstraction.

The thing is: you cannot connect to the external database if you do not have DBAL as a sysext. Removing DBAL from the core will disable external database access completely because Install tool will not be able to create tables. Without tables EM will not work, so you will not be able to get DBAL from TER. Dead end.

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Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 core team
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