Re: Call for Votes: JSON location

On 4/8/06, Joshua Eichorn <josh@bluga.net> wrote: > For my use in HTML_AJAX not at all, but im not sure how, you would fit > that into the pear packaging standards, or if you really would want too. The name of the package and what it provides may differ. I do not see a problem to have JSON or (Services|HTML|Text)_JSON as name and the two public methods in one file. > Since even if you wrapped it in functions_exists you don't have a good > way of guaranteeing that the c code and the php code output the same thing. > Of course this is mainly a problem on the decode where you have to make > choices about using assoc arrays or objects The output must be semantically the same. As far as I know they work together to keep both sync'ed. > I'd expect you'd want the code in PEAR to match the extension but i > don't know how easy of a job that is too do. My extent of working with > the code has been patching around utf-8 encoding problems. It is not an easy job, but even a nearly compatible version (> 90%) is way more usefull than a OO interface, from a maintenance and forward compatibility point of view. --Pierre