Re: Adding pecl/zip to 5.2

Hello, On 7/21/06, Ron Korving <r.korving@xit.nl> wrote:

I was thinking the same thing. We can of course clutter the namespace with a class for every possible file extension we want to develop an API for, but maybe we can do the smart thing and do what PDO does for databases: present a unified API.

I was thinking the same as well. But I don't think it is a good idea. For the simple operations, you can do it easily in php. I don't think there is a need for an internal implementation of such wrappers.

I don't like the idea of having GZip, Zip, Rar, Arj, Etc classes when they all do the same.

They don't always do the same, that's the problem. Also I'm a fan of one need/one tool. PDO was needed because it is really a mess in the DB APIs. I would prefer to define some common API and have independent extensions. It will let us implement all format specific features or needs (which can be speed, compression level, etc.). Cheers, --Pierre