Re: Services_Ebay package - maintenance ... or more ?

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Edouard SWIAC <edouard.swiac@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello at all the PEAR community! > > > Hereby I would like to propose my help to maintain the package again. But > after peering at the source code, and experiencing the most common usages > with the eBay API in my job (basic CRUD most of the time), I think that the > actual package is a little bit complicated to use and maintain, not to say > overwhelming. Can you expand on that with a few examples for us? When I'm looking at bits like: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.webservices.services-ebay.encoding.php and http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.webservices.services-ebay.example.php it looks trivial/easy to wrap my head around - ie; I don't see many obvious bits of bad API. > So I propose a new version of the package, a less overwhelming version. > Something very simple that wraps the most used API calls in an efficient way > (do CRUD with items and orders, following the bids ...). For the rest of the > calls, an abstract call would be created, allowing the package's user to > implements easily the calls he needs. Of course the whole package would be > developped following PHP5 standards with E_STRICT enabled. > I think we'd be open to a Services_Ebay_Manager or similar (having the same kind of relationship to Services_Ebay that HTTP_Client has to HTTP_Request) > > I don't know if it's in the PEAR philosophy to rewrite a package instead of > just update its code. Nonetheless, I hope the community shall consider my > request as it is very serious, while being very important for me on a > personnal level since it would be my first steps in an official PHP > developpers' community. > Oh, we're not too picky about it. Sing out when you get code samples you'd like to share!