Re: File bug and Mime_Mail extension
| From: | Tomas V.V.Cox | Date: | Thu, 16 May 2002 16:55:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: File bug and Mime_Mail extension | ||
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El jue, 16-05-2002 a las 18:42, Wolfram Kriesing escribió:
> Richard Heyes wrote:
>
> >>a problem with "File::readAll( remote file )" on a remote file:
> >>the method File::_getFilePointer checks the following
> >>
> >>// Check it exists
> >> if (FILE_MODE_READ == $mode AND !file_exists($filename)) {
> >> return PEAR::raiseError('File does not exists: ' .
> >>$filename);
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Latest cvs copy of File.php doesn't have this problem. However I would prefer
> >Mail_Mime not to rely on the File:: class. A simple loop should be fine here.
> >
> >
> >
> where do you see the problem with that?
> is it not that packages are made to make work easier for each other? and
> since File exists what's the reason not to rely on it?
> i thought that was one of the advantages PEAR would bring too!
It's wrong to introduce such depencies when the amount of code and the
benefits are small. Think that a dependency involves more overhead (I/O
access, memmory, code speed, admin work, ...).
Tomas V.V.Cox