Re: maybe we could all?

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:57:25PM +0000, Nathan Rixham wrote: > Project: PHP Common Objects and Datatypes > > method: for everybody who wishes to contribute, and for everybody to > review, discuss and work on the same classes. > > what are they: classes we can all use, that have been discussed, > reviewed and agreed between many great developers around the world. > > the classes: all the common ones we can re-use from "User" to "Address" > "Email" "Article" and beyond, also perhaps wrappers for primatives / > scalars. > > expanding: extra abstract classes we can also use, common interfaces for > the above; eventually maybe utility classes as well. > > the idea wouldn't be a framework or another php classes, more of a repo > full of common classes to save us all some time, and as a nice project > anybody can contribute to and which we can all discuss and debate the > finer grained details. > > additional: these would maybe be best to stick to common usage, so if we > have say a "User" class in our own project with specific needs, we can > simply extend the base user class and add our own functionality. > > thinking of putting this distraction and debate time to good use that we > can all benefit from. > > would also propose sticking to php 5.X [we could decide a version] and > obviously OO; but then if the procedural guys wanted they could as well. > > maybe it's just me, no commitment, no solid work, just bits of contrib > and discussion / feedback. > > follow? thoughts? comments? interest? > > [everybody, even tony, would need max input and discussion to get the > best solutions for us all, and class at a time should mean we get a > steady stream of classes to the repo.. think about 6 months down the line] > You really don't have enough to do, do you? Paul -- Paul M. Foster