Re: Filesystem path APIs

So your suggestion for simple file stuff is to download composer? On 2023-12-08 1:43 a.m., Max Semenik wrote:

On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 10:20 PM Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi internals I'd like to start a pre-RFC discussion about filesystem path APIs in PHP. The reason I bring this up is because of this recent feature request: https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11258 The feature request is about the following: We already have some functions to work with paths in PHP, e.g. basename, dirname, realpath. We do not have some common path APIs that you can find in other languages like: path_join to join paths and path_normalize to normalize paths.

We have a lot of commonly used functionality that's successfully fulfilled by Composer packages - does this really have to be core functionality? I understand the argument about batteries included, but across mainstream languages you can always find examples of something that sounds like it should really be there, but it isn't.