Re: Duplicating code between packages.

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:14:02 +0100 Peter Bowyer <peter@mapledesign.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > In the Image_Transform NetPBM driver I need to use two of the methods > from the file package (getTempFile() and getTempDir()). Should I > include this package in the code, creating an extra dependency and > adding another 500+ lines of code, or should I instead duplicate these > two methods in my driver? If I was using C I'd do the former, but for > PHP is the latter better? If we keep an extra dependency, you may use the one available System.php. There are more chances to see it already included somewhere else than File. Duplicating the code is sometimes usefull to avoid too much dependencies. However, I prefer to do not duplicate this specific code. Temp folders and files can be a really pain to work with, PEAR solves much of them. In somedays, it should even use the user config settings directly, keeping the whole thing consistent. hth pierre