Re: geoipo again
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:00:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: geoipo again | ||
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On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Bob Majdak Jr <bob@opsat.net> wrote:
> Pierre (on another extension message):
>>>> About your extension, as we won't prevent you to include it (there is
>>>> no policy to prevent duplicated features)
>
> == ==
>
> So, nothing I said was false and I am glad this is a public mailing list. But it
> seems you and the other people I talked to are right, this is just an uphill
> battle I cannot win without having a crowbar or friends on the inside.
There is no battle, nobody will or can force you to merge and at the
end of the day I won't object to any competitive extension in PECL. I
only suggest better solutions to avoid a massive mess with extension
sharing the exact same library usage with only minor differences (not
talking about implementation but from a user point of view). And
that's something you totally ignored and did not even try to consider.
That's your call, but please don't come back here and accuse us or me
to block you or your work, that's simply not what is happening here.
> Pierre's last statement above clearly shows that originally my request
> should have been accepted with open arms
That's not what I said. What I said is that we do not prevent
competitive packages to co exist in PECL. Whether I consider this
exact case as a good thing is something totally different.
> but nobody is even willing to
> actually step back and consider the point that I did not just add OOP to
> your codebase, I wrote a completely different library that just happens to
> share the same library as you, libGeoIP.
And I pointed you about other extensions where such things happened
and now live inside one single extension smoothly, having BC and new
APIs, bringing benefits to everyone and avoid confusions.
Anyway, it is so obvious that a merge/replacement with BC or similar
solution is way better for everyone. Please sit down together, put
your egos on the side and try to get that done together.
Happy weekend,
Cheers,
--
Pierre
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