I personally don't think it's *that* useful to have an abstraction on top of archives and in any case, it doesn't make sense for this request to come up now. If you'd like something like that, then I suggest to apply for a PECL account and work on an extension that implments it.
As to having ZipArchive in the default distro. I don't think it'd hurt as long as Pierre is confident that the APIs are stable. I was sure they were but I didn't quite understand one of his last emails. Andi > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Quadling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 5:13 AM > To: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding pecl/zip to 5.2 > > A compression wrapper like PDO would be great. And they do > all do the same things more or less. Take data and compress > it. Take compressed data and uncompress it. Not that different. > > On 21/07/06, Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 7/21/06, Ron Korving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was thinking the same thing. We can of course clutter the > > > namespace with a class for every possible file extension > we want to > > > develop an API for, but maybe we can do the smart thing > and do what > > > PDO does for databases: present a unified API. > > > > I was thinking the same as well. But I don't think it is a > good idea. > > For the simple operations, you can do it easily in php. I > don't think > > there is a need for an internal implementation of such wrappers. > > > > > I don't like the idea of having GZip, Zip, Rar, Arj, Etc classes > > > when they all do the same. > > > > They don't always do the same, that's the problem. Also I'm > a fan of > > one need/one tool. PDO was needed because it is really a > mess in the > > DB APIs. I would prefer to define some common API and have > independent > > extensions. It will let us implement all format specific > features or > > needs (which can be speed, compression level, etc.). > > > > Cheers, > > --Pierre > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To > unsubscribe, > > visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > -- > ----- > Richard Quadling > Zend Certified Engineer : > http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 > "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
