Re: Obsoleting PEAR.php

On 15 May 2003 18:17:43 -0400 Sterling Hughes <sterling@bumblebury.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Well, ok, I guess I'm either starting a flamewar, or rehashing > something that's already been decided. Poo Tee Weet. > > One of my major problems with PEAR is the underlying framework. > Nearly every class in PEAR seems to extend from the PEAR base class, > when its really not required for most of them [1]. The end result of > this is*slower* code that is a part of the framework. I suggest that > for now we start removing the usage of the PEAR class from the large > majority of code in PEAR. This should speed up the code considerably > (no extra overhead). In most cases we should not extends PEAR directly (and require_ it). So I agree with you while not extends PEAR for useless reasons (I removed it from HTML_Javascript 2 weeks ago for the same reason). I usually include PEAR only for the Error class. Maybe a well view on the PEAR_Error system and how it can be used can help to make things cleaner (i.e does not extend PEAR just to have the errors methods ;). I point you on http://www.php-mag.net with a nice article from Alexander about Pear_Error. My 2cts, pierre