Re: Contribution for PECL

> > 1) Why does he have to find some meaningless prefix? Is this a new rule > > for all packages? I understand that when we have two packages that > > compete we must find a solution to the naming clashes this might create. > > But I say its tough luck for the package that comes second. Because we > > never know when it does or if it will ever come. > > Well, the idea of a good naming convention is not saying tough luck to > either package. In pear there is the concept of top-level package names > and then subsequent sub-classes. Even library authors (in the general C > sense) will most often prefix the function calls with something relatively > unique, I don't think it should be different here. tmpl_* is too "common" A question: wouldn't that be a template_* too common instead of tmpl_*? The issue is that the module has appeared much time ago and there are many people (including me) who already use it in their projects. I can't see any problem with changing the name of the extension, but after function names are changed I will have to support _two_ packages what doesn't seem to me a very good thing. BTW, since there is no any other SpeedTemplate yet (according to Google), I think that would be a good name for the PECL package. What do you think? > > 2) He is contributing something to PECL and not to the core of PHP. > > While Smarty is very cool and fast I can see a lot of reasons not to use > > it. But that is not the point. Its Ok to ask about the hows and whys of > > the package, but not in this "there is this package, so I guess you can > > go home" tone. > > yeah, for my part we took the conversation off-list, I made it clear (in that > conversation) that I didn't mean to stop/discourage him (not that I could). > Certainly, everyone is entitled to their opinion on this issue, no matter whether > they are wrong or not. ;-) I was just interested in his reasoning... I do realize the topic is very sensitive for everyone, and actually I was expecting something like that. However, I'm glad we stopped the pointless holy war and began to discuss something more constructive. =) Peace! -Maxx