Re: [PHP-DEV] Module or Class Visibility, Season 2

[Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]]

On 21 May 2025 10:20:19 BST, Michael Morris <tendo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I'll stop you there.  You are deliberately misrepresenting what I wrote and
>even a cursory glance at it makes that clear. You are not trying to be
>constructive in any way, you're trolling.

I'm sorry you got that impression. I can assure you that I am not trolling, and 
my email was an entirely genuine attempt to engage with the problem that you 
were trying to describe. 

My understanding of the example is that there are two WordPress plugins, which 
want independent sets of Composer dependencies. There might be 20 different 
Composer packages used by each plugin, but those packages don't need any 
special relationship with *each other*, they just need a special relationship 
with *the WordPress plugin*.

So if we can come up with a solution where only the WordPress plugins need to 
be changed, and you can use whatever dependencies you want without waiting for 
them to be changed to a new way of working, is that not a good thing? 

I've tried several times to explain why I think Linux containers are a good 
analogy; I'm not sure if you didn't understand, or just didn't agree, so I 
don't know what else I can say.

Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]