Re: file streams & metadata

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <info@tyrael.hu> wrote: > > > if you have a better alternative which is viable, then I would support > that. > > otherwise I wouldn't support the all-or-nothing approach. > > thats like if we couldn't add pecl/phpize until it works on every > supported > > platform/filesystem combination. (cheers for the upcoming 5.3.6 release) > > and there is a ton of stuff which some point in time (or still ) didn't > work > > on all platform. > > No, that's a totally different problem. phpize has no impact on the > internal APIs and how things work in the engine or stream. > > Making bad things stream (and god knows how many of these things we > already have) has a direct impact on every platform we support. Here > it will be even worst as it will be on every platform+FS combination. > > It is pretty much the same as doing drivers specific things as the PDO > level and make them look like being generic. Very very bad idea, > obviously. > > while I agree that we shouldn't carelessly add something that will be a PITA to support later, but I think that we should watch out for the over-engineering/Nirvana fallacy also. this is why I said that it would be a good idea to write things down, and get more brains and yes on the problem and the suggested solutions. and I think that with the last emails, we've started to get constructive about the matter. Tyrael