Re: Template Proposal

Quoting Martin Jansen <mail@martin-jansen.de>: > As you can see, a lot of people don't like the current way. Right now, > PEAR is in a stage where we can re-define basic rules to attract more > users to PEAR. Some months later, this possibility will not be there > anymore. Uh, sorry, no. There is released code that's using PEAR already. There was when someone broke DB's backwards compatibility for a month with the whole quote() vs. quoteString() mess, and that was a problem, too. Making decisions by facts on the ground isn't always the best way to do things, but it seems to be how things get done in the open source world a lot. And there is code on the ground - DB, Log, Mail, Image, Date, HTTP, HTML, XML, PEAR - all the packages that are there and work and shouldn't be broken. We've got code. Let's build on it, not tear it down _for no good reason_ - sorry, tabs vs. spaces doesn't qualify - again. And again. And again. As for "a lot of people don't like the current way" - if you're talking about tabs vs. spaces, it's always going to be near 50-50, and so there are _always_ going to be "a lot" of people who don't like whichever decision is made. And again, for the core stuff, I think it ought to be consistent. So some of us will just have to live with a small semantic thing that bugs us. Learn to set your editor to take care of it for you. -chuck -- Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org> "What was and what may be, lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we ever have is here, now." - Ursula K. Le Guin