Re: hope to finish the coding standard

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 06:37:26AM +0100, Alexander Merz wrote: > As somebody who has kids like Stig, especialy during x-mas time ;) No kids here; just graduate school to monopolize all of my time. =) > As i see it right, the people, who wants to change the coding > standards have already existing classes. There are already > published and used. They want to introduced them into PEAR (i > believe, they want to benefit from the infrastructure), but > without making changes to match the coding standard. Right. I think one of the main issues for them is that they wrote code that interacts with a larger project which they also maintain. When we ask them to reformat their code to conform to our style standards, we're asking them to change the interface to their code, which may affect the rest of their application. At that point, it becomes largely inconvenient for them. I know few people who develop components simply for the sake of developing components. > The first reason for changing is the function naming problem. > But we have already a solution for this: change the class to > match the PEAR naming standards and write a wrapper to keep > compatible to existing installations. This way is already > documented in the FAQ. I'd honestly prefer to see non-compliant code in the repository than a bunch of wrappers. That's my personal opinion, though. -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Information Technology (2001) http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member