I was concerned to read this and joined #drupal on freenode to find out more.
Disclaimer - I am *not* a drupal developer, but the company I work for
does a lot of drupal work and we use postgres almost exclusively.
On 9/5/07, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Apparently some developers of Drupal are advocating for going MySQL-only
> because they haven't had a reliable PostgreSQL mainainer in some time:
> http://www.drupal4hu.com/node/64
Apparently that is just the view of *one* of the developers and
doesn't speak for the entire community.
They also say that they're going to have PDO support for Drupal 7
which is due out sometime next year.
> Surely there's someone in our community who uses Drupal and could give them
> a hand?
I'm rallying some troops here at Catalyst to see if we can jump in.
> This seems to be part of a disturbing trend in which the size of the
> PostgreSQL+PHP community is shrinking and not growing. We also need PHP
> driver maintainers and other projects.
Is there a central place to keep track of projects that need help with
porting? WIkipage? Something?
cheers,
Penny
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