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+layout:    post
+title:     "Wordpress madness"
+date:      2012-06-14 06:40:12+00:00
+tags:      [wordpress, ranting]
+permalink: /blog/2012/6/14/wordpress-madness
+published: true
+author:
+    name: Gergely Polonkai
+    email: gergely@polonkai.eu
+---
+
+I’m a bit fed up that I had to install [MySQL](http://www.mysql.com/) on my
+server to have [Wordpress](http://wordpress.org/) working, so I’ve Googled a
+bit to find a solution for my pain. I found this:
+[http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Alternative_Databases]. I don’t know when
+this post was written, but I think it’s a bit out of date. I mean come on, PDO
+is the part of PHP for ages now, and they say adding a DBAL to the dependencies
+would be a project as large as (or larger than) WP itself. Well,
+yes, but PHP is already a dependency, isn’t it? Remove it guys, it’s too
+large!
+
+Okay, to be serious… Having a heavily MySQL dependent codebase is a bad
+thing in my opinion, and changing it is no easy task. But once it is done, it
+would be a child’s play to keep it up to date, and to port WP to other
+database backends. And it would be more than enough to call it 4.0, and
+raising version numbers fast is a must nowadays (right, Firefox and Linux
+Kernel guys?)