Hi,
I considered
submitting this as a proposal, but decided the mailing list would be a better
place for it.
As far as I can
tell, the Zend class doesn't actually serve any useful purpose. The registry
component is about to be superseded by Zend_Registry, and the class-loading
functions could easily be moved to, eg Zend_Loader, which IMO would be a better
name for it.
My reason for taking
exception to the Zend class is that it lives outside the Zend/ directory in the
library, and so when I tried to put the zend library on a
svn:externals command, I wasn't able to put it in my lib/ folder with the other
libraries and the rest of the code. I had to put it in a new zflib/ folder which
I found to be rather messy and I have to have workarounds for
it.
As the svn:externals
command is a particularly easy approach to upgrading the zend library
within another repository (you don't have to keep downloading new copies, you
just update the revision that gets checked out), I would like to suggest that
you make that as easy as possible.
Regards,
Richard
