Re: PEAR2 Standards Update

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Brett Bieber <brett.bieber@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings everyone - > > Just an update on PEAR's progress adopting the "PHP Standards and Best > Practices for PHP 5.3+ Frameworks and Libraries." :-) > > At the last PEAR Group meeting the exception policy and the class > naming policy were approved by the PEAR Group and are now incorporated > into the PEAR2 standards. I got a couple questions -- and I looked at the docs. Currently, a couple packages implement/use SPL exceptions directly, e.g. they throw an InvalidArgumentException and not Foo_InvalidArgumentException. Does this mean we have to wrap all SPL exceptions when we want to use them? Also, how exactly does that play with having a base exception class? My base exception class is Foo_Exception, but I want to use SPL exceptions as well. How do I extend to conform to the rule to provide one base exception for the package? From what it looks like, I extend the SPL exception but implement my own package' base exception. I'm not sure if I read the code right, so I'm asking to make sure. Also, can you detail who this standard group is? Last time I heard about it it was a closed circle of people and I had the impression that a lot of people didn't like that notion. [ Not looking to start a flame war here, but I'd like to know what the general objective is, what qualifies people to come up with so-called standards and where I read more about it. ] Till