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Folks,

I'm interested in porting CiviCRM to run on the free (as in beer) version of DB2 : Express-C (http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/express).

But before I embark on such a project, I'd like the thoughts of others on a few things.

1) Does anyone have a handle on the effort, and complexity of the effort, in porting to another DBMS.    While I'm a competent enough programmer, I'm not a PHP guru.  And I have a "day job" and a family.
2) What about a test suite ?   I see in the shipped packages a shell script which appears to call a set of MaxQ test scripts, but I can't find the actual scripts.   I notice their is a "Sprint Weekend" later this month to improve the unit tests, but this seems to suggest that there are some already.  Are they available as a separate download ?
3) What is the long term strategy of the core team for database access ?   Pear-DB ?   PDO ?   I'd rather not do a port to find that the core changes underneath me ?

Anyone else got an interest in this ?

Thanks.

Phil Nelson
ScotDB Limited
(teamdba@scotdb.com)
 

Donald,

Thanks for your reply.

If you are moving from PEAR:DB to PDO in the 4.x timeframe, then that would be a good time for me to maybe look at this.

I see from Sourceforge that the latest alpha release is 3.1, and the latest in the roadmap is 3.2 : what are your expected timescales for starting work on 4.x ?

For now, I've implemented CiviCRM (and Drupal) on MySQL at http://snowycorrie.org.

The charity I am doing this for was impressed with the functionality.   I'm using one of my domains for now to host this, but am hoping to persuade them to move their main domain over to Drupal / CiviCRM rather than the handcrafted site (raw HTML) they currently have.

Thanks again.

Phil Nelson