[PEAR-DEV] Re: [dev] Re: Horde Browser.lib

Jon Wood jon at jellybob.co.uk
Wed Mar 26 15:41:27 PST 2003


On Wednesday 26 March 2003 3:28 pm, I found a post-it note on my monitor 
saying Chuck Hagenbuch said:
> Quoting Jon Wood <jon at jellybob.co.uk>:
> > It would be better if you could extend this, because I think that having
> > 2 different APIs to find out about the user agent is excessive, unless
> > they are *hugely* different.
>
> Sorry, I don't entirely follow. Are you suggesting that we should go and
> rewrite our lib to extend the one in PEAR, just because it's there in PEAR,
> despite it being similar to/seemingly based on our code, our code having
> more features, and our code having been around for far longer?
I'm not neccesarily saying that, I just don't see the benefit in having to 
packages in there that do essentially the same thing, I'm not hugely fussed 
either way though.

Jon
>
> That would just add overhead for people using Horde, and not much positive
> that I can see...
>
> -chuck
>
> --
> Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck at horde.org>
> "... It is not more light we need, but more warmth! We die of cold, not of
> darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost." - Miguel de
> Unamuno



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