On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That's just disgusting....
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Soxred93 <soxred93(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That's disgraceful. I might have to boycott phpBB
just because of
that...
There's no need to flame other open-source projects here. We have
code that's at least as awful if not more so, including *plenty* of
places where we still call $dbr->query() directly (like everything
based on QueryPage). As far as I know, our abstraction layer was
devised by Domas early on in MediaWiki's existence. If he hadn't
decided to go in that direction, we'd likely be using something
similar.
Besides, ugly or not, their multi-DB support looks to be a lot better
than ours. As far as I know, MediaWiki barely works at all on
anything other than MySQL and pgsql, and doesn't work fully on the
latter either (various maintenance scripts, extensions, etc.).