Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:31343 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 7992 invoked by uid 1010); 31 Jul 2007 20:44:13 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 7977 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2007 20:44:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Jul 2007 20:44:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=daniel@haxx.se; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=daniel@haxx.se; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain haxx.se from 91.191.140.26 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: daniel@haxx.se X-Host-Fingerprint: 91.191.140.26 kluster2.contactor.se Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [91.191.140.26] ([91.191.140.26:59716] helo=kluster2.contactor.se) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C3/38-31116-A1F9FA64 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:44:12 -0400 Received: from linux3.contactor.se (linux3.contactor.se [91.191.140.23]) by kluster2.contactor.se (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id l6VKgUF6025792 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:42:30 +0200 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:42:30 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: dast@linux3.contactor.se To: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <46AF6536.4010600@lerdorf.com> Message-ID: References: <46AF6536.4010600@lerdorf.com> X-fromdanielhimself: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on kluster2.contactor.se X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension From: daniel@haxx.se (Daniel Stenberg) On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Daniel, I don't really understand what renaming the extension would > accomplish. Then I didn't make myself clear. The point of renaming would be to allow people to search for something with a name that doesn't confuse them. If the binding would be called 'mombamoolo', they would search for that and they would certainly not be confused by products or projects called curl or libcurl (even if they would know that mombamoolo uses libcurl). Now they search for curl and libcurl instead, and they read the docs on our site, and yes some of them get angry or even hostile on us when they can't find enough details about PHP on our curl site. Then again, I did say I realize that a rename won't happen. > And the curl_setopt() page lists more than just the names of the > options. Hm, I stand corrected. I obviously haven't paying attention. I guess I was fooled by the "constants" page... Sorry, my bad. Still, this is a real problem to many PHP users of this extension. Like it or not... (and no, I don't suggest that name, it was picked randomly just to make my point)