XML::XML_Feed_Writer deleted

David Coallier (http://pear.php.net/u
ser/davidc) has deleted the proposal for
XML::XML_Feed_Writer.

The reason for that is:

I have no more time to work on this right now, I use it and
it works but
still from flat files and this is very ugly, and with my
company and other
pear packages, I have no time.

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David Coallier wrote:
> David Coallier (http://pear.php.net/u
ser/davidc) has deleted the proposal for
XML::XML_Feed_Writer.
> 
> The reason for that is:
> 
> I have no more time to work on this right now, I use it
and it works but
> still from flat files and this is very ugly, and with
my company and other
> pear packages, I have no time.
> 

This is rather unfortunate.  PEAR could really use this
package.  I 
could really use this package.  If you are not able to
maintain it now, 
I am volunteering my services to get it to initial release.

Gregory Szorc
gregory.szorccase.edu

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I think this package would be extremely useful. It should
however maybe 
use  the pear xml packages somewhere to handle stuff. It
should maybe 
have factory methods for different feed types like RSS,
Atom, XSPF for 
instance (sorry havent looked completely). It is in PHP5
though so it 
makes me wonder should there be different channels created
for a php4 
port and php5 port ?

IE is there going to be a complete PHP5 pear repository port
and an 
equivalent where possible PHP4 port ? I think its silly to
write PHP5 
pear classes extending or composing PHP4 classes dont you
think ? I 
would just keep them PHP4 for now until there is possible
channels 
available.

On 08/02/2006, at 2:39 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote:

> David Coallier wrote:
>> David Coallier (http://pear.php.net/u
ser/davidc) has deleted the 
>> proposal for XML::XML_Feed_Writer.
>> The reason for that is:
>> I have no more time to work on this right now, I
use it and it works 
>> but
>> still from flat files and this is very ugly, and
with my company and 
>> other
>> pear packages, I have no time.
>
> This is rather unfortunate.  PEAR could really use this
package.  I 
> could really use this package.  If you are not able to
maintain it 
> now, I am volunteering my services to get it to initial
release.
>
> Gregory Szorc
> gregory.szorccase.edu
>
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Dan Rossi wrote:
> I think this package would be extremely useful. It
should however maybe 
> use  the pear xml packages somewhere to handle stuff.
It should maybe 
> have factory methods for different feed types like RSS,
Atom, XSPF for 
> instance (sorry havent looked completely). It is in
PHP5 though so it 
> makes me wonder should there be different channels
created for a php4 
> port and php5 port ?

I will not be coding any php4 port that will be handling
XML, if someone 
feels like doing XML_Feed_Writer_P4 or something that's
their choice, 
but with the XML processing ability of php4, I refuse to do
so because 
first of all, I want to port most packages to php5 only as
php4 is in my 
opinion deprecated by it's lack of OO, lack of security,
lack of complex 
XML structures handling (libxml2), lack of Exceptions, SPLs,
xslt, thus 
I believe that all the future packages, if want to please
the market and 
at the same time be reliable, should be php5.

Hrmm what else ? I have static:: binding patch installed and
namespaces 
running on my dev version of php5 and I have to admit that
it works 
pretty well.

> IE is there going to be a complete PHP5 pear repository
port and an 
> equivalent where possible PHP4 port ? I think its silly
to write PHP5 
> pear classes extending or composing PHP4 classes dont
you think ? I 
> would just keep them PHP4 for now until there is
possible channels 
> available.

And again, I have to disagree, there is php5 packages
already, and the 
php5 port, php4 port will probably take a little while to
develop or get 
in production, so no, I will not do any xml documents
handling with php4 
unless someone has an idea, or the idea of using xmlwriter
efficiently, 
but again, I would need some benchmark on both sides and the
exact same 
abilities that the script has right now. Because the package
does work 
pretty well, just the architecture is bad, very bad.

Although I am very opened to any design if anyone has
anything to 
propose. The main problem right now are the files,
atom0.3.php, 
atom1.0.php, rss2.0.php,etc. They work, but how do you
people want them 
to work ? I started redisigning it about 2 months ago, but
it's at home, 
  I'll check tonight and let you guys know of how I started
the 
rewrite(because I can't remember at all), just let me know
if you have 
an idea in the meantime.

--David

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