Re: file streams & metadata

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:59 PM, James Butler <james.butler@edigitalresearch.com> wrote: > > ** > > On 08/03/11 15:46, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: >> 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. >> > /while I'd love to have a lovely fully working on all > streams-types/platforms solution to make life easy, just having > something in place would reduce the pain/workarounds i (and probably > others) are having to use to a degree, and gives a starting point for > future development. As long as whatever comes out is incomplete rather > than broken/buggy then i can't see the problem with not waiting for a > fully complete solution. What is so hard to understand that it is not something we can change once it is in place? At least not without either duplicating implemantions/features or breaking compatibility? There is no need to hurry with that only because it suddenly became very important for a couple of you. Let think before coding, once, would rock :) Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org