Re: [PEPr] +1 for Web Services::Services_oEmbed

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Alexey Borzov <borz_off@cs.msu.su> wrote: > Hi, > > David Jean Louis wrote: >>> >>> But don't you want to wrap the cURL code in your last three packages into >>> a standalone? Just curious! >>> >> >> That's a real problem for pear 1, imho we need a PHP5 HTTP_Request2 that >> can run with E_STRICT... > > Yeah, this point gets raised here quite often but nothing useful came of it > yet. > > I even created a page for discussion of HTTP_Request2 on QuickForm2 wiki, > but it didn't attract much interest, either: > http://quickform.mamasam.com/wiki/doku.php?id=http_request2 > >> I already throwed the idea on #pear without success ;) >> >> I know we need to concentrate on pear2 but maybe we could make a pear 1 >> version of the pear2::http_request or make a php5 clone of the pear1 >> HTTP_Request ? > > Direct clone of HTTP_Request is a bad idea, since its architecture is a bit > messed up, while a rework to PHP5 with "drivers" (fsockopen, curl, others?) > is feasible. > > Zend Framework has some good ideas and even the implementation in PEAR2 SVN > has stuff to borrow. > > Of course we need a full unit-test suite, lack of that for HTTP_Request is a > major problem in its development. > >> I willing to put time on it. > > Still willing after reading the stuff above? Yes we are. :D