ODBC support in Valentina?

[Phil]

Hi,
We're wanting to have an abstraction layer between the application we're 
writing and the database. Although at the moment we're wanting to use 
Valentina, unfortunately:
1) We may have to support more than one database from the same 
application (eg a client requires us to use Oracle at their site)
2) Until the Valentina 2.x engine is released, we are frozen (because of 
features we're waiting for), so we want to get started (and possibly use 
something else).

Mainly for reasons like the above, we're wondering if an ODBC driver 
will be available for Valentina? I heard that there was some mention of 
this in February... is the ODBC driver waiting for the release of the 
2.x engine?

TIA