Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Proposed changes to 16 API

[Dave Hall]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 11:36 -0500, Chris Weiss wrote:
> what about a new "app" for storing unsupported api classes?  This
> could even be a HEAD only app and have the stable parts of it moved to
> main API at release time.  Afterall, these are 3rd party and
> unsupported apps we are talking about.

This still creates clutter and is still a pain for cvs updates and
maintainability.

> 
> for this, i would support the CreateObject function to be slightly
> mod'd to check for this api when it doens't find a requested class. 
> The error handling should already be there so it's just another if().
> 
> 

IMHO this will create more work than what I have proposed.  

If people feel strongly enough about it, I am happy to drop the proposal
of patching 16 with Sigurd's patch, and simply including it in
phpgwapi/doc  What do people think of that idea?

Cheers

Dave

> 
> 
> On 10/4/05, Guillaume Courtois <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > What do people think?  I plan to commit this in a few days
> > > > unless there is any real objections.
> > >
> > > I do strongly object putting so many new things into .16. Really. We have 
> > > rejected
> > > smaller changes in the past for stability reasons.
> > >
> > > I propose to build a .18 (or .20 or whatever we like to call it) version, 
> > > consisting of
> > > the current .16 + your additions, make that a stable release (which 
> > > should be trivial
> > > seen in the light that you even want to put it in .16) and close .16 for 
> > > development.
> > >
> > > This would give other devs a chance to get their code included in .18 as 
> > > well, if it is
> > > well tested etc etc
> > >
> > >
> > > If we go along this line, I would be calliung for support from the dev 
> > > community for
> > > testing the proposed .18 before release.
> >
> > I agree with all that too. We have a 0.9.16.008 now, I think it's time to 
> > move
> > on to a new vresion branch. Even if it's still .16 + some stuff and not a
> > version from head, it remains a new version for me.
> >
> >
> >
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