[dev] Names that conflicts with PEAR

[David U.]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting Blues <blues@ds6.pg.gda.pl>:
>
>> Horde tries to provide Auth class. The same name is provided by
>> PEAR, and if someone uses PEAR and Horde together it can make some
>> confusions. This patch changes name from Auth* to Horde_Auth*
>
> Can you provide a practical example where this becomes a problem?
>
>> Now question - horde uses some parts of PEAR. Why does not use Auth
>> (and other) class from there? If something is missing is that class
>> should added there, not in horde's own classes.
>
> Many reasons. One is that our Auth class was around well before PEAR
> had one. Another is that I don't believe that PEAR should provide an
> authentication class. But the people running PEAR these days disagree.

You forgot to add that PEAR's Auth class offers like half a feature.  It's
next to useless for most purposes.

Where are you seing namespace collisions 'Blues'?

-davidu