Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20369 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37071 invoked by uid 1010); 25 Nov 2005 11:23:16 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37056 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2005 11:23:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Nov 2005 11:23:15 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 195.227.108.51 wfserver02.wf-ppr.de Windows 2000 SP2+, XP SP1 (seldom 98 4.10.2222) Received: from ([195.227.108.51:55032] helo=wfserver02.wf-ppr.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 6F/68-56276-324F6834 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:23:15 -0500 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.6944.0 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:23:11 +0100 Message-ID: <00A2E2156BEE8446A81C8881AE117F192C1D05@companyweb> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there) Thread-Index: AcXxnCSRrEhguRWPRziUaH92J55nRwAFgexA To: "Lukas Smith" , Subject: AW: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there) From: mp@webfactory.de ("Matthias Pigulla") > > obviously one problem is that PEAR does ignore coding standards.=20 > > Classes should be prefixed in both pear and core. And=20 > neither Date nor=20 > > File is in any way prefixed.=20 >=20 > Err, how are we supposed to prefix PEAR::Date? >=20 > PEAR_Date? > Date_Date? > Lala_Date? The whole thing is nothing PEAR is to blame for. Even if PEAR had noticed it earlier and renamed it to supercalifragilistic_Date and had gotten out the update to everyone fast enough - still it would require everyone using the PEAR class to reflect the change in their very own codebases. -mp.