Re: About IRC Classes (was Re: [PEAR-QA] HTTP_Upload patches)

On 1 Jun 2004 at 17:12, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote: > David Costa wrote: > > > > > > Do you need anyone on Net_IRC ? :D > > Seeing the status of the IRC classes: > > Net_IRC: always beta, 2600 downloads, one year inactivity, no docs > Net_SmartIRC: stable status, 13000 downloads, one year inactivity, docs > > IMHHO, thinking on what is best for PEAR, the actions I'd take for them > would be: > > - Mark Net_IRC as deprecated > - Rename Net_SmartIRC to Net_IRC (until the Net_EvenSmarterIRC class > arraises) > - Accept developers for the class Imho simple renaming is not a good idea since this might lead to name- confusion. The good solution I could think of would be Net_IRC2 ... and then maybe somebody should write try to compare both classes and see which Net_IRC-functions would need to be added to SmartIRC, if there are any. And there should imho be a guide how to move from Net_SmartIRC to Net_IRC if possible. Regards, Stefan