Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] HTML_Select-1.2 (beta) Released.

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:25:59 +0400 Alexey Borzov <borz_off@cs.msu.su> wrote: > Hi! > > web4p4@mail.guenteleurope.com wrote: > > Hi Alexey, > > > > From my point of view, this is the same as the discussion on GetOpt. > > If you remove the package, you at _least_ need to provide a Siberia > > copy of "an older and not-so-compatible version of code" which many > > applications still depend on. As I already said, this is absolutely nothing to do with the current issue. One is to merge a package within another. The other was removed without any reason. > I don't see the point in reviving the code that wasn't maintained for > quite some time, although. Reason: the same code is now in PEAR, it > was maintained all the time and it has a ton of bugs fixed since then. It lost his maintainer and got a new now, then I do not see a reason why Klaus will not maintain correctly. > Proposal: why not make HTML_Select a wrapper around > HTML_QuickForm_select class, adding some BC switches (IIRC, the only > BC break was loadArray() behaviour). Thus we'll have a HTML_Select > package for those who need it without duplicating the code and/or > having to fix the same bugs once again. No reason to install tons of codes if I only need Select. The reason to resurect HTML_Select has been clearly explained and I agree here. And make HTML_Select a wrapper around Quickform select sounds really bloated to me, the counter sounded more logical. pierre