Re: file streams & metadata

On 2011-03-08, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <info@tyrael.hu> wrote: > > > From the sideline: > > it's hard to belive that there are no one else with opinion on this matter. > > I don't want to take sides because I don't have the necessary knowledge > > about the matter, but maybe it would be a good idea to write an RFC, and and > > maybe a POC, so we can see how intrusive would be the implementation. > > and if there are more bystanders, then please make your voice heard. > > Tyrael > > It is very easy to implement what Stas is asking. But that's not the > question. The question is should we do it? And my point is that we > should not do it like that, bad design, incomplete and limited > support. As a developer, in many cases I'd prefer something incomplete and limited in support to nothing at all. I've been bitten by the same issue Stas describes, and having a way to tie into touch and chmod in my stream wrappers would be incredibly useful -- even if it won't work with _every_ stream. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matthew@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc