Re: Re: [PEPr] Comment on File System::S3

Cesar D. Rodas wrote:

Note this: http://news.php.net/php.pear.dev/48694 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I was not aware of your package and DID NOT COPY ANY OF YOUR CODE. I build this code over 3 months ago and used it in the last month on a website and since I was using it in production decided to release it. I have no idea when you came up with it, but there are also other people who wrote similar packages. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://news.php.net/php.pear.dev/48697 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I worked on a project a while back where the client wanted to backup into S3. They had a bunch of wrappers (straight php, curl) but it did not work. So when I asked them who did this, they didn't know and said it was some intern and it had 0 copyrights/names on it. I ported the class to use HTTP_Request etc., recently I put in CRYPT_HMAC2 as well to go more PHP5 when I used it at another client. And now I will use MIME_Type etc. and change the behavior from global constants to class vars to follow suggestions given in comments. Both parties told me that they had no problem if I proposed it to PEAR since I made it work and polished it up. So if some intern indeed took your code in the beginning, I am still not aware of this. The first project dates back to over three months ago. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contradictions?, yes or not? so, why insisting on the lie? I am young and my English is not awesome, but you I am not stupid. It would better if he just confessed and the case was closed

Cesar please just calm down a bit... He's not about to say "Oh yes I tooootally copied your code and therefore withdraw all my statements." I'm sorry that this has happened to you but it's not like nobody else can then just go away and write their own version of this now can they? This stuff doesn't seem all that complex. But having said this I reckon perhaps you should submit your class for proposal here and then perhaps work with Till to fix some of the issues he encountered. I think PEAR would be a better place to host php packages for quite a few reasons, but mainly because whenever I wanted a php library I got quite frustrated with phpclasses.org and always found the stuff in pear to be of the best quality - in terms of the ideas and types of packages you can find here and also the way packages are reviewed by peers before being accepted. -- David Sanders shangxiao