Re: Renaming namespaces to packages

Hello Dmitry, LOL, and in the future we have to rename PHP as it is no longer for homepages? Friday, August 17, 2007, 9:01:12 AM, you wrote: > Hi, > We are still working on namespace concept and its features. > I am not sure that existing concept will work well as is. > So please, don't make us additional troubles. > The name is important but it may be changed later, first look into concept > itself. > Do you completely satisfied with it? > Have you tried to use it in real life applications or frameworks? > Have you measured slowdown? > Do you see holes in concept? > These questions are more important then the name... > BTW: I personally would accept 'package' for current implementation, but in > the future we would need to rename it back :) > Thanks. Dmitry. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Johannes Schlьter [mailto:johannes@php.net] >> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:14 PM >> To: Dmitry Stogov >> Cc: 'PHP Internals List' >> Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Renaming namespaces to packages >> >> >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 09:33 +0400, Dmitry Stogov wrote: >> > At least, I have one additional namespace related patch, >> that is not >> > accepted yet. >> > >> > Renaming may require a lot of additional work with it. >> >> Well, in my experience it's simpler to do such renaming >> inside an patch (then it's a simple sed command) than after >> committing it to the tree where you have to make sure not to >> accidentally rename other, unrelated, stuff, too. That's the >> reason why I tried to do the renaming asap. >> >> > Also, I am not sure that allbody agree with "package". >> >> I didn't read all mails in that thread but from what I saw >> only Stanislaw was against renaming it. I for myself don't >> care really much about the name, but I tend to follow >> Marcus's argumentation[1] for "package", it tastes a bit >> better for me. >> >> What I would like is a soonish decision so we can advertise >> that feature and get people testing it and playing with it >> without having to fear that their (test-)code breaks the next >> day. (I didn't say it won't brake the next day then, but it's >> good to give less excuses for not testing that stuff. This >> testing would also include mysqlnd, unicode and whatever else >> we have in HEAD right now) >> >> johannes >> >> [1] http://news.php.net/php.internals/31328 >> >> > Thanks. Dmitry. >> > >> > > -----Original Message----- >> > > From: Derick Rethans [mailto:derick@php.net] >> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:25 PM >> > > To: Dmitry Stogov >> > > Cc: 'PHP Internals List' >> > > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Renaming namespaces to packages >> > > >> > > >> > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Dmitry Stogov wrote: >> > > >> > > > I have no serious objections about renaming. I am >> asking to wait a >> > > > bit. >> > > >> > > If you think "package" is fine, why wait with renaming it? >> > > >> > > regards, >> > > Derick >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Derick Rethans >> > > http://derickrethans.nl | >> > > http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org >> > > >> > >> Best regards, Marcus