Re: pear2 allfiles

Evert | Rooftop wrote: > I noticed the following in the wiki: > > <?php > // note the lack of dependency on include_path - essential for beginners > if (!class_exists(PEAR2_Exception)) { > class PEAR2_Exception extends Exception {} > } > require dirname(__FILE__) . '/Base.php'; > require dirname(__FILE__) . '/Exception.php'; > require dirname(__FILE__) . '/Drivers/Common.php'; > require dirname(__FILE__) . '/Drivers/Simple.php'; > require dirname(__FILE__) . '/Drivers/Fancy.php'; > ?> > > > > The main reason you would want allfiles.php it allows the opcode cache > to be kicked in, in the PHP parsing phase. > Making use of dirname(__FILE__) makes this a conditional include (just > like autoload), which this won't be evaluated during the parsing phase. > > I'd suggest to remove the part that says "opcode caches friendliness". I > didn't want to change this myself without prior consent. I agree. This appears to be a recent revision, and is incorrect. The purpose of allfiles.php is to make it easy for beginners to use a package without any trouble. Beginners generally don't care about performance in terms of load time, but rather would like to see how the thing works. I am almost back from the most insanely crazy summer of my entire life, and will be hacking away on this proposal. Thanks for everyone's patience. Greg