On Nov 29, 2004, at 5:38 AM, Evan Prodromou wrote:
Why did we write our own database abstraction layer
when there's one
already in PEAR?
Most likely, the people writing it at the time weren't aware of the
existence of PEAR. IIRC PHP didn't ship with the base PEAR packages
until 4.3.0, which was released in December 2002, well over a year
after Magnus's development began, and nearly six months after Lee's
phase 3 overhaul went live on Wikipedia.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)