Re: pearifying Metabase (was: [PEAR-DEV] New Metabase Aniversary release)

On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 22:29, Björn Schotte wrote: > * Lukas Smith wrote: > > There are some radically different approaches in the various template > > engines > > Not at all, compare IT/ITX and PEAR::HTML_Template (PHPLIB's > template class). > > > Metabase is a good code base. > > No one doubts that. > > > So PEAR community ... please either shot this project down cleanly or > > lets get the ball rolling. I can deal with Metabase. I do not _need_ a > > pearified Metabase. I think it will help PHP greatly. > > I would appreciate PEAR::Metabase, but I doubt that replacing > PEAR::DB would be a good move. There could be other voices in > the future that say "You know, Metabase replaced PEAR::DB, now > I want that my super duper PEAR::Socket_very_cool should replace > PEAR::Socket". What's the problem with that, if PEAR::Socket_very_cool is compatible with PEAR::Socket? That's the case with the Metabase integration too: current PEAR DB users should not have to change their code unless they want to start using the added features. - Stig