Re: Template Proposal

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: > 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. > Amen. Just for the record I fully agree with Chuck. Joao -- João Prado Maia <jpm@phpbrasil.com> http://phpbrasil.com - php com um jeitinho brasileiro -- Precisando de consultoria em desenvolvimento para a Internet ? Impleo.net - http://impleo.net/?lang=br