Re: [Coding Standards] Loading all files at once

Hi, Paul M Jones wrote:

Zend and Solar both use a static method for class-loading; I think PEAR2 might benefit from using something like that too. (It's not a base class, just a class with some static methods.) Alexey's inclusion of a loadPackage() method is particularly interesting.

While Zend does have a Zend_Loader class, they also use require_once throughout the code and rely on include_path setting. Which leads us to the question whether the problems with those are greatly exaggerated: folks at Zend probably do have a clue.

However, there is a chicken-and-egg problem here: you have to include the PEAR2_Loader class to begin with. Dunno if that's a deal-breaker or not.

I don't see "chicken-and-egg" problem, since we'll need just to include one file here that'll not have any dependencies (only maybe on PEAR2_Exception, but we can put Loader and Exception into one file).