[Solar-talk] Move Solar.php to Solar/Solar.php ?

[Paul M Jones]

Hi all --

Antti (or was it Andreas?) brought this issue up on IRC a while back,  
as did Mike Naberezny some months ago.  I think I can address it with  
an exception to the coding standards for just this one case.

The issue is: it's hard to do an SVN "external" of Solar, because  
externals only work with directories, and the Solar.php file lives  
outside the main Solar directory.

I'm suggesting that maybe we move from "include 'Solar.php'" to  
"include 'Solar/Solar.php'".  This does break the class-to-file  
naming convention rather dramatically, and raises a single highly- 
visible inconsistency in the project.  However, I think that for  
those folks using Subversion externals to manage their code base,  
that this would be a small change with a very positive effect.  In  
general, we only include Solar.php in the bootstrap file, so it's not  
a change that would affect wide swaths of code.

I'm not saying "this is going to happen" but it is one possible  
solution to that (perhaps uncommon) problem.

Does anyone here have arguments for or against this kind of move?   
(Does anyone really care?)


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