On 03 May 2006, at 14:39, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
I'm sure Adrian will answer in more detail but the key advatgantage of text files for metadata is that you don't load PHP to in order to get title/author/description... This means no more memory problems on admin/modules. Futher, it means that CVS or SVN or project module or system.module can safely read anyone's scripts without trusting all files. Consider how much better we can do with project listings on the web if we aren't duplicating information between the project form and the README.
True. Thanks for pointing these out. :) Being able to execute meta-data files seems dangerous. Not being able to execute meta-data files makes them a lot less interesting. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/