Re: beginning plannings for PEAR for PHP6

Alan Knowles wrote:
>  
>   
>> I guess one of the big advantages of the include path based solution
>> we have right now is that it enables people to easily replace some
>> files in PEAR packages without having to modify the original package
>> at all. However I do not think many people use this.
>>     
> We do this all the time. - Things like XML_Tree (sort out the BC issues)
> / project specific hacks to XML_Serializer / PHP4 versions of
> Services_Ebay... the list goes on....
Hi Alan,

This is yet another reason why the allow-autoload-but-don't-require-it
solution is better, because it even eliminates the need to put your
hacked XML_Tree class into "XML/Tree.php" relative to include_path.  All
that needs to happen is for it to exist.

Greg