Using Doctrine in Drupal now!!
In my last post I talked about the possibility of Doctrine being in the core of Drupal 7. After some thought, and a little bit of work, I realized this is not necessary. Doctrine can be used in Drupal now with a custom module I wrote. It comes with schema files and models for the drupal core database schema so you can begin using Doctrine models immediately for interacting with your Drupal website database.
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We need a core standard
I still think that this can lead to a problem of requiring different dbal/orm layers for different modules. This is something that can get very messy very quick. Because of the community nature of Drupal, and the "plug n' play" nature of Drupal modules and site building, I believe a core dbal/orm should be defined, and everyone should be required follow that standard. This is the only way to keep consistency. Now we just have to get crell to agree :)