RE: [PEAR-DEV] HTML_Template_IT cooperation status, competitive package proposal

> From: Alexey Borzov [mailto:borz_off@cs.msu.su] > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 6:33 PM > Lukas Smith wrote: > > > > Ok then it sounds like you should be proposing a package which extends > > IT to add cache. All other functionality should go into IT. > > Some points why it is not feasible: > > 1) The correct working of cache feature requires lots of tweaks to the > underlying classes (see <!-- INCLUDE --> hack, for example) and lots of > knowledge of its internals (see also 3). I'd end up rewriting most of > ITX in my extended class anyway. > 2) I want to improve other part of ITX as well --- callbacks. This will > probably break BC in some way, and you know Pierre's urge to keep as > much BC as possible. > 3) Consider for a moment: you maintain MDB/mysql.php, while > MDB/Common.php is maintained by another person, with whom you can't get > along quite well and who was against adding MySQL support to MDB from > the very beginning. Sweet, eh? OK, I see. Hmm I always thought that the caching would be something that simply extends the functionality of IT and does not require internal changes. I see your point in 3). However I still don't think we should rush this. Anyways lets see what other people think. Regards, Lukas