AW: Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there)

php.internals

Matthias Pigulla

20 years ago
> > obviously one problem is that PEAR does ignore coding standards. > > Classes should be prefixed in both pear and core. And > neither Date nor > > File is in any way prefixed. > > Err, how are we supposed to prefix PEAR::Date? > > PEAR_Date? > Date_Date? > Lala_Date?
The whole thing is nothing PEAR is to blame for. Even if PEAR had noticed it earlier and renamed it to supercalifragilistic_Date and had gotten out the update to everyone fast enough - still it would require everyone using the PEAR class to reflect the change in their very own codebases. -mp.