Re: hope to finish the coding standard

Alexander Merz wrote: > > > I think the coding standards can be relaxed a bit. Their goal is to > > create a common set of rules. But this community has to listen to its > I already wrote in a lot of mails that the coding standard is handled relaxed > in practice. > > > (potential and regular) contributors. There are two issues that receive > > most of the complaints: > Please go through the archiv and check, which potential contributers want to > change it. > So far I remember there are only two, which said, we are not willing to > contribute our classes due to the cs. You are assuming that they all announce their non-participation on the mailing list. > > I think it's time to extend (1) to allow both studlyCaps and > > under_scores. IMHO the strict studlyCaps rule has proven to be > > sub-optimal for this community. If PEAR was a Java repository it would > Which community? Allow both style it is optimal for devs, but really > non-optimal for the user. > > people complain, we cannot simply ignore them forever. That's just > > arrogant. > We are already arrogant. We decided not to commit phplib as a whole, or > binarycloud, because we want no complete frameworks in PEAR. But a lot of > people wanted it. Irrelevant. These decisions were not made because someone did not like binarycloud, but because someone has an idea of how PEAR should evolve. > At least it is a question of discipline. If you are not willing to adopt your > code to cs, why should you willing to maintain and to document your class? > Matching CS isn't so complicated espe. with a good editor. I.e. changing MP3_ID > to match the cs requires only 15 min, but writing phpdoc and testing the > changes 60 min. The CS stuff is a big column for quality keeping and being > userfriendly. I agree, the coding standard is important for quality, but from what you're saying it sounds like I have suggested to ditch it. I haven't, I suggested making a compromise. A compromise is for both developers and users, since it will probably attract more good packages to PEAR. - Stig