Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:31344 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 10374 invoked by uid 1010); 31 Jul 2007 20:48:46 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 10358 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2007 20:48:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Jul 2007 20:48:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.94.239.5 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.94.239.5] ([82.94.239.5:37557] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F7/98-31116-720AFA64 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:48:40 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l6VKmYvu028065; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:48:34 +0200 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:48:32 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.ez.no To: Daniel Stenberg cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <46AF6536.4010600@lerdorf.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Regarding the ext/curl extension From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > 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). This has another side as well. If it was called mombamoolo then how would people know that PHP is actually providing a wrapper for curl? There have been some examples of this in the past "sattelite" and "universe" where both extensions around corba for example- and if you didn't know you'd have no idea where to look for. So I'd say that with picking a different name you'd confuse people. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org