Re: Naming schemes

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:09:58 -0500 Jon Parise <jon@php.net> wrote: dsa > I think we've pretty much agreed to disagree about the PEAR > naming convention. > As of this moment, our coding standards dictates the naming > system to be used throughout PEAR. Because it is an official > coding standard, all PEAR code must follow it. That's the reason > for standards, so as long as that document exists, no one should > be questioning the standard. End of discussion. :). Exactly. > Now, on to the heart of the matter. People don't like the > current standard, so the discussion should be about changing the > standard. Beginning of Chaos :). I actually add pear-db to a project, as a first step, every wrappers use the coding standarts, error handling and so on. I don't like the pear stds ? implementations ? I dont use it and that's all. Evzery day we have to take care about specifications, failed one time and be ready to rewrite your code every new releases. > The PEAR community is obviously larger and more diverse than our > little Horde project One more reason to be strict. > So, at this point, I really don't think we're being productive > arguing about standards. Let's just drop the naming requirement > from the coding standards document and be done with the issue. > > Attached is my proposed change to the PEAR coding standards > document.