Re: Naming clash (was: http extension)
| From: | Sara Golemon | Date: | Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:01:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Naming clash (was: http extension) | ||
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>> pecl_http is my suggestion. Even if we somehow manage to isolate pear &
>> pecl, having 2 packages with the same name would end up causing endless
>> confusion.
>
> well this is quite a nasty issue in general and has already bitten us on
> the soap front iirc. even worse its likely to bite us quite often. however
> I fear there is little we can do about this aside from ugly prefixes for
> the project that comes second.
>
The *right* solution IMO, is to work towards namespace support in Zend.
Can someone who worked on the initial go at Namespaces ennumerate --in
specific-- what the limiting factors were? All I've ever heard on list was
"It was fundamentally broken".
-Sara