+1 on renaming Zend.php to Zend/xxx.php (I'd go with Zend_Core)
On 2/26/07, Ramon de la Fuente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My 2cents.. I think removing Zend.php from the main directory would make the whole structure more daunting from the point of view of a "beginner". That "first" file is a very easy step to mentally start grasping the framework structure. Also, breaking the naming convention in the very first file you encounter is IMO a bad way to go. That being said, as there is a lot of animo from the rest of the gang for moving the file, I myself would opt for the name "Zend_Framework" or "Zend_Core" (as said before that suggests "glue" or again the first starting point), and I would also agree with moving the ::dump() method to a Zend_Debug class and the registry methods to Zend_Registry. Regards, Ramon de la Fuente Bill Karwin wrote: > Please take a look at http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-958 > > We propose to move Zend.php to <zf-home>/library/Zend/Zend.php. The > class name would continue to be 'Zend', and we're not suggesting > changing any methods within the class. Therefore no usage of this class > would change. > > The only change in your application would be that you need to change > this: > > require_once 'Zend.php'; > > To this: > > require_once 'Zend/Zend.php'; > > Alternatively, you could add the 'Zend' directory to your include_path. > > The benefit of this change is to simplify integration of a Zend > Framework tree in an application tree. You could use svn externals, for > instance. > > The disadvantage is that it does not follow the ZF convention that class > names always match the physical location of the class file. But this is > the only class that needs to be an exception to this convention. > > I volunteer to make this change. I'll update other classes in the ZF > tree. I'll write a note in the manual to tell users what they need to > do. I'll write a docblock in Zend.php acknowledging that it is an > exception to the class-to-location convention. > > If there are no strong objections, I'll make this change. > > Regards, > Bill Karwin >
-- best regards, André Hoffmann
