2010/12/31 Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com:
I see no problem with backporting DB2 installer and DB class to 1.17 as long as it is clearly marked as experimental. Of course, we must be much more cautious with other changes in core needed for proper DB2 support.
Sounds reasonable. If DB2 support is sort-of-ready before the 1.17 release and doesn't require non-trivial core changes, we can do that.
So Radim, please do all development in trunk, then if and when we decide the code is 1.17-ready we'll merge it into REL1_17. This is what we do for everything else too.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)