First of all, I would like to thank the ZF team for replying extremely quick considering it is the weekend and we are very near christmas (it is family time right ;) ). The work already done on ZF is one of the best out there and I'm sure all of you realize that. My point and hopefully it was already in your minds was that with all the momentum about further progress, we do not forget about the problems/issues currently in lost limbo. I would rank ZF as one of the best PHP libraries out there at the moment and the loose-coupled design is very flexible; however, the lack of some coupling between some components when using ZF as an application framework or in a "rapid devel" type of manor does seem a bit "hackish" (that is only how I feel). Obviously ZF is not a rails type/cake type of framework and I hope it does not become one. Also from listening to other users opinions I think that ZF could set down a few guidelines or opinions about application design etc... (model design, directory layout)
I am very grateful that it is an open source project rather than a proprietary one and that you guys spend time reviewing opinions (hopefully you don't take me too seriously as I am just throwing things out that come to mind). It is very great to see that developers listen to its users opinions because it is very easily to not realize tiny issues. Thomas, yes I was referring to just Zend_Mail, this was my experience with and may not apply to others, but I'm just bringing issues I had to light. (If you set a default transport in the bootstrap, how the heck do you use it in the controller without reverting to creating a new instance or the registry ;) ) Sinclair, I have been monitoring the Zend_Build proposals; however, I have not had time to look into it with detail yet... As for my little design, it is just an experiment as a different approach to the Zend_Application proposal by Bill and it does have its own issues. Happy Holidays! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/One-person%27s-opinion...-tp14476650s16154p14482673.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
