Re: Re: PEAR::Date broken (Was: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php-src(PHP_5_2) /ext/date php_date.c php_date.h)

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 20:25 +0200, Edin Kadribasic wrote: > But breaking even a few or "both" is still reckless, irresposible > behaviour when all that is needed to fix the breakage is rename the > class. Espacially because of all the bad publicity we get for breaking > backwards compatibility for no good reason. In my experience, we've received an equal if not greater amount of negative publicity from a lack of consistent naming conventions. PEAR is a library of functionality developed on top of PHP, and therefore PHP has the first say to what to name what and everyone else moves around that. I also think that as PHP moves from a strictly procedural language to an ever growing OO arm, IMHO it isn't unreasonable to lay claim to certain core class names. Moreover, I think this whole flame war is counterproductive for us all -- can we just do a +/- vote on this and move on to more useful concerns? +1 for Date as the name. John