Re: Re: [metabase-dev] MDB news

| > I think that's only half true. If you remember some of my very | > old postings here on the list, I also had concerns about those | > rules (i.e. tabbing etc.). | > | > But on the other side I think every professional developer should | > be able to adapt to coding guidelines that are defined. If not, he | > is possibly not keen enough. | | Professional developers abide to rules of the company they work for. | However PEAR is not a company and developers do not have change their | style to be able to contribute for free. Demanding people to bend and | become less productive to be allowed to contribute is a very ungrateful | posture. | | You make it sound as if developers have the duty to conform to rules | that they are not paid to work by, as if they are obligated to | contribute. Since they are not obligated to contribute at all, obviously | you will see a lot of qualified developers refusing to contribute. Do | you think that is a good thing for the sake of one style only? I have not participated in this discussion before because the subject says MDB news and I am not really interested in being on one side or the other. BUT as for coding standards, all those can be achived by a code formatter, which are available for free on the net. So no need to stick to one coding style while writing scripts. Consistency is the most important thing while you build up a complete classlib. The biggest difference between PHPclasses and PEAR is that PHPClasses is a listing of individual projects, while PEAR aims to be a collection of core classes (much like the Java core classes). This also determines the rules contributors need to follow in each project. I have read two articles about PHP vs. .NET at a popular webmaster site. Both of the articles are quite misleading, but the comments include many points on PEAR... http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/870 http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/871 [ps. I am not working for webmasterbase/sitepoint, just an ocassional reader of them]. Goba