Re: AW: [PEAR-DEV] [Proposal] Stream_Var

On 16 Aug 2003 at 11:40, Stephan Schmidt wrote: > > I'm preparing this package to provide a generic container of > > data blocks of any sorts, which can be used in a way like > > javax.xml.transform.StreamSource of JAXP [1]. > > Looks like partly the same as my class. > I'll implement different modes (r/w/..) and then I'm able to provide > all functionality you need. I think it would be better to use > Stream_Var as this has a clearer name and therefore will be used by > more developers. I took a look at your LOB_Container classes and I > think it's no problem using my stream wrapper... Furthermore you built > a SHM wrapper, but there already is one in PEAR by David Sklar. Why > didn't you use his package? From an outside view I think that Stream_Var might be a good / better solution. And I support Stephan that existing packages (here the SHM wrapper) should be used or if not perfectly possible be extended. Stefan