[TYPO3-dev] RFC - Remove DBAL in total

[Mathias Schreiber [wmdb]]

Karsten Dambekalns wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On 21.01.2009 14:44 Uhr, Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >] wrote:
>> Separating DBAL from the core would open up the opportunity to set
>> version limits within the DBAL extension.
> 
> If there was more feedback (that's what could motivate me, as I 
> personally don't need DBAL) or contribution (meaning other's move the 
> code forward) the code would evolve.
> 
> If it did that, publishing updated versions in the TER between core 
> releases is absolutely no problem. It's a system extension, but still 
> 'only' an extension. So whenever something can be fixed inside the 
> extension, it can be updated in TER.

I think Dimitry had a valid point there.
If DBAL is an extension the path would be like this:
- Set up TYPO3 with mysql
- Load Extension List
- Install DBAL
- Delete MySQL Database (if no longer needed)

Option number two would be to store the extension cache in an XML file 
and use the PHP5 stuff to look things up.

greetings
Mathias