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Grouping all these tiny libraries under an umbrella project will just end up like PHP. No consistency, and various levels of repetition and redundancy and quali
by richthegeek 10y ago
Grouping all these tiny libraries under an umbrella project will just end up like PHP. No consistency, and various levels of repetition and redundancy and quality.
Having them separate like this at least means that if one library doesn't implement things 'right' you can switch to another easily.
- joss82 10y agoPHP lacked the namespacing in the first place, which made the API messy and flat. Look at python (or ruby)'s standard library, it's awesome, and of high quality (most of the time, see urllib/requests for a counterexample).