Re: Extending Net/

Quoting Joey Smith <joey@joeysmith.com>: > I'm curious as to what the plans are for the "Net" section of PEAR. > While I realize that many of the things that exist in CPAN's Net section > are frequently compiled in to PHP, it would be nice to be able to access > these through the PEAR standard interface. I don't really buy the argument. Everything you list (except for telnet, scp, ssh, which are thorny all by themselves) is already available natively. Why write a wrapper that just wraps those native calls? It's overhead. I've written libraries that specifically deal with IMAP folders, for example, but that adds a lot of specialization, and wraps a _ton_ of work that can't be done just by the imap_* functions. It's also not something I'd consider appropriate for PEAR - it's as general as I thought I could sanely make it, but it still makes assumptions that not everyone may want to make. -chuck -- Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org> Entropy. It's what's for dinner.