Re: Adding pecl/zip to 5.2

On 7/20/06, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Pierre wrote:

where

    possible. Each word in the class name should start with a capital
    letter,
    without underscore delimiters (CampelCaps starting with a capital
    letter).
    The class name should be prefixed with the name of the 'parent set'
    (e.g.
    the name of the extension).

    Good:
    'Curl'

Curl is good but not Zip? Should I use ZipZip? Come one, it is ridiculuous. It is, but alternatives such as ZipFile, ZipArchive can work just as well. IMO the classnames should be nouns... and what does "Zip" itself really say?

Do you really ask me what Zip say? For 99.999% of PHP users, I think it is pretty obvious, in a programming context with an extension called "zip", and even more when they have enabled it themselves. There is maybe a couple of people who will expect a kind a php based zipper, but really, do we care? It makes no sense to rename it (for all reasons I listed above). I can wait php 6.0 or until I eclipsed Methuselah's age. Users will suffer from your choices, not me, too bad. Cheers, --Pierre