Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20495 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49224 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Nov 2005 06:09:38 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49209 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2005 06:09:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Nov 2005 06:09:38 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 204.11.219.139 lerdorf.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([204.11.219.139:58609] helo=colo.lerdorf.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id A0/7A-56276-12CF7834 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:09:38 -0500 Received: from [10.224.8.119] (m010f36d0.tmodns.net [208.54.15.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by colo.lerdorf.com (8.13.5/8.13.5/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jAQ69Xsl031084 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:09:34 -0800 Message-ID: <4387FC1E.5050207@lerdorf.com> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:09:34 -0800 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ilia Alshanetsky CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <4387E97B.4040300@prohost.org> In-Reply-To: <4387E97B.4040300@prohost.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Solution to date issue in 5.1 From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf) Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > The attached patch is a possible solution to the date *crisis*, it > renames the class to PhpDate to avoid any namespace conflicts with pear > or custom user classes called date. > > If there are no strong objection 5.1.1 (5.1.0 + this patch and nothing > else) goes out on Monday. I don't think choosing a precedent for a class naming convention should be done under duress like this. I say just ifdef it back out then and put those constants back as they were before. This class doesn't buy us anything. It's just a forward-looking thing that really shouldn't go in unless we can all agree on what it is we are looking forward at. -Rasmus