Re: [PEPr] +1 for File Formats::File_XSPF

Bonjour, David Grant wrote:

Hi Hannes, I wrote the package in PHP4 because that is what I still write the majority of my code in, and is currently still more in use than PHP5. That said, I think writing a version of the package in strict PHP5 would bring the benefits you describe, and if there was the facility to have the PHP5 code co-exist, I would release one. We try to convince Hannes of this fact:

that we cannot be absolutely modern, that lot of productions still cannot use an only PHP5 code. So , I feel, writing it the most compatible possible is a first goal. In order to convert it with a minimum of hassle. Forget this absolutism, Hannes. I see no point to restrict pear to php5 (which one :) ) *now* Especially if the package is innovative in its content. That said, sure some only php4 constructs are to be avoided (not that I saw some in this proposal ... I did not check it :) )

As for the concatenation, I can pass off the XML generation to something like XML_FastCreate. Would that satisfy your conditions? Cheers, David Hannes Magnusson wrote:

Hannes Magnusson (http://pear.php.net/user/bjori) has voted +1 on the proposal for File Formats::File_XSPF. Proposal information: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=328 Vote information: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-vote-show.php?id=328&handle=bjori This vote is conditional. The condition is: First off; I can't help wonder if PHP4 based package for this is the way to go. Seems aaaaalot simpler, and more efficient, implimenting this in PHP5. My condition is: For an XML package you use awul lot of string concatenating. Need to solve that - and those CS issues

a+

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