On 29 Mar 2005, at 12:02 AM, Daniel Convissor wrote:
I'm new to Drupal, but have long involvement in the PHP community. For instance, I'm the lead maintainer of PEAR's DB package and am involved with the PEAR documentation and website teams. I hope you won't be too displeased with the fact that we've deprecated our PEAR db support (which was only being used for postgres). I just found it was easier and simpler maintaining the postgres port when not requiring external libraries that needed to be installed and managed.
Drupal aims to have as few dependencies as possible, and it will take a lot of convincing the get Drupal dependent on any PEAR packages =).
One more thing I would like to do is make multi-site installations easier by providing scripts for performing the table name prefix substitutions. The new install system being prepared for 4.7 will handle this automagically for the user, but patches for the time being would be very welcome.
As I move forward with helping this client, I'm sure I'll come across more ways to improve Drupal. To these ends, I'm interested in obtaining the ability to make commits to the repository, please.
Cool. Good to have you on board. -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com