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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Filesystem path APIs
From: lanre@online-presence.ca (Lanre Waju)

So your suggestion for simple file stuff is to download composer?

On 2023-12-08 1:43 a.m., Max Semenik wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 10:20 PM Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi internals
>>
>> I'd like to start a pre-RFC discussion about filesystem path APIs in PHP.
>> The reason I bring this up is because of this recent feature request:
>> https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11258
>>
>> The feature request is about the following:
>> We already have some functions to work with paths in PHP, e.g. basename,
>> dirname, realpath.
>> We do not have some common path APIs that you can find in other languages
>> like: path_join to join paths and path_normalize to normalize paths.
>>
> We have a lot of commonly used functionality that's successfully fulfilled
> by Composer packages - does this really have to be core functionality? I
> understand the argument about batteries included, but across mainstream
> languages you can always find examples of something that sounds like it
> should really be there, but it isn't.
>
>