Um.......... I fixed some bugs today and provided the patch. The ticket was deleted.
So much for "open" source. -Ben On Feb 26, 12:37 am, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 24, 8:13 pm, Mr-Yellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The responses to tickets relating to this issue in trac usually have > > "wontfix" and a short non-explainatory note basically saying "piss off > > and stop asking you don't need this, we know best". > > Well, I'm really sorry you read such a demeaning tone into my messages > on Trac. The fact is, whether we "know best" is not even the point. > The point is, we make decisions on what to support and what not to > support based on the driving philosophies of this project, and using > it essentially necessitates an implicit agreement with those > philosophies. > > The fact is, compound primary keys are really just not requested that > often. Even if they were, we've decided it's just not something we're > going to implement, because it adds too much overhead in terms of > complexity. You can argue about relational theory all you want, it's > simply irrelevant to the decision-making process here. When it comes > down to it, supporting multi-column primary keys is just not that > useful to *me*. Furthermore, not enough people have raised it as an > issue in order for me to go out of my way for them. > > But that's the beauty of Open Source: I as a core developer don't > *have* to implement a particular feature in order for you to use it. > If lack of support for compound primary keys is really enough of a > pain point for you, patch the code! :-) No one's stopping you. Just > don't expect me to take the extra time out of my life to implement a > feature which I personally would have no use for, nor likely ever > will. Not to mention the fact that, again, the needless complexity > that this would add completely undermines the philosophy of the > framework. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
