> This is something of a wet dream of mine TMI, my friend. TMI.
Anyway... I think your Subject is unnecessarily trolly even if the substance of your post isn't. So maybe you could re-post with a "WAS: Questioning..." to avoid p'ing off the dev team? If I'm understanding your statement of "The autoload problem" correctly, the language-default spl_autoload function indeed allows you to install a package safely -- in an environment that you know has not completely overridden the default autoloader. If you want to make sure the default is called for your directory structure, then you can make sure to tell the people using your package to put the default spl_autoload in their autoloader chain. Can you explain how this departs from your vision? I don't think what you want is another "default" autoloader, but a way of ensuring the system default is called once your package is physically installed on a system. Unfortunately, there would always be file I/O overhead if it were to be called even if the PHP install has nothing in the default file layout. You could argue that the default spl_autoload should run unless deliberately turned off (never mind BC for the moment), but then it would just become a popular best practice to turn it off and you're back at the same place. -- Sandy -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
