[horde] Horde 4 with oci8

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Luis Felipe Marzagao/Andamentos <lfbm.andamentos at gmail.com>:

> By the way, has the horde project ever considered using Doctrine  
> (http://www.doctrine-project.org/)?
>
> I'm doing some tests and it seems to integrate and work pretty nice.  
> That way wrinting code just once would already provide support for  
> the most important dbases (oracle, mysql, postgre, microsoft sql  
> server etc.).
>
> In case it has already been considered, why wasn't it incorporated?

It was discussed at least a little. Personally, it didn't fit with how  
I wanted Horde_Db to work. And I really don't like the XML-heavy  
configuration that was used, at least the last time I looked at it.

I didn't undertake fleshing out Horde_Db lightly, but I think it's  
been a worthwhile library already.

-chuck