[pmwiki-users] Request input on soon-coming FAST Data release

[Ben Stallings]

Wow!  A lot of traffic on the list since yesterday evening.

Caveman, thanks for asking for suggestions.  For what it's worth I 
second all of Chrisses's suggestions: spin off optional functions into 
separate files that are included as needed; provide more documentation 
both in the Cookbook and in the PHP code itself; and think some more 
about the ZipData name.

The reason I have misgivings about "ZipData" -- and I guess I'm on the 
name-approval committee ;-) -- is that if your recipe has multiple 
files, the most likely way you'll distribute them will be in a .zip 
file, hence Chrisses's comment about admins "unzipping" the file before 
uploading it to the server.  Back in my tech-support days I literally 
spent hours explaining to users the difference between a Zip disk and a 
.zip file.  Fortunately Zip disks are largely irrelevant now, but .zip 
files are still with us, and I wouldn't wish that particular problem on 
anyone when there are so many other names available.  :-)

My favorite name suggestion I've heard so far is DataPage -- it's 
catchy, descriptive, and you're already talking about data pages in the 
documentation.  So there are my two cents.

Thanks again for asking, and best wishes for the new version!  --Ben S.