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How much work do you think there is?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Reijnders<br><b>Sent:</b> 15 October 2013 19:36<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: PHP compatibility<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I already formulated my wish to be able to use more db engines than only mysql/mariadb.<br><br>I am willing to spend some time on it. Not sure how far I will get. But, I simply think that we can't afford to simply formulate our wishes and expect it to be implemented.<br><br>That doesn;t mean that we shouldn't formulate our wishes.<br><br>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>David Goodwin schreef op 15-10-2013 19:12:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 15 Oct 2013, at 18:04, Tom Reijnders <<a href="mailto:reijnders@tor.nl">reijnders@tor.nl</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I understand where you are coming from, and I understand your reasoning. But I respectfully disagree.<br><br>This is just a typical re-factoring which we will be obliged to do from time to time. No new functionality involved, perhaps new opportunities.<br><br>The question is more MySQLi vs. PDO. 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