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

[Chris Weiss]

On 10/4/05, Dave Hall <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

sure, but so does having 3rd party apps

>
> >
> > 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.

yeah, but will be less invasive and more flexible and not require a
new release just to support more 3rd party apps.

>
> 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