Re: A virtual file system

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:11:32PM +0100, Richard Heyes wrote: > That doesn't make it any less pointless. If Chuck/Horde people are > ok with having us add their VFS into PEAR, then I see no point in > wasting time dupicating work and losing their already gained experience. I'm largely indifferent. On one hand, it's a fairly generic component that will no doubt be useful to others. On the other hand, a bunch of the Horde components are starting to rely on these Horde libraries, and adding the code to PEAR would no doubt create something of a fork. Our users have all sorts of trouble getting PEAR components running (we require the Log package, for instance), and this would just introduce another dependency for them to tackle[1]. So, as far as the code is concerned, it shouldn't be a problem, but in terms of dependencies, et. al., it could become problematic. On the other hand, if the Horde code doesn't end up in PEAR, so other VFS implementation will, and then there are two APIs floating around when there need be only one. [1] I'm hoping the release of PHP 4.3 with the full complement of PEAR tools will make this part of the installation process less painful. -- Jon Parise (jon@php.net) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/)