> > 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.