User Guide: Libraries vs Core Classes

[eluser]oribani[/eluser]
[quote author="jedd" date="1252647934"][quote author="oribani" date="1252646838"]
If I missed something, someone please point it out.
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I think you have.

Your own libraries AND your extensions to the core classes - live in the same directory. This doesn't mean that they are the exact same types of things.[/quote]

No, I don't think that's particularly relevant. First, it's *not* anything to do with your own custom libraries. And it's not a matter of where your extensions/replacements belong. The problem I am pointing out is that the "Replacing/Extending Native Libraries" section in the user guide seems to refer to the classes in system/libraries/. Then you go to the next user guide page and it's talking about these "core classes", but from what I can tell, that's the same thing in the same place: system/libraries/. Certainly the process for how to override these "core classes" is the same as how to override "native libraries". I still can't tell what the difference is.

[quote author="jedd" date="1252647934"]
I imagine your Open Source reference (I'm very much a free software vernacular kind of guy) was uttered in much the same tone that people usually reserve for complaining about how governments never do the right thing AND how they are asked, every four years, to allocate an hour or so of their time to do something vaguely democratic. Not really embracing the classic Greek tradition of being a good citizen, I've often thought.

But thanks for dropping in and spending a few moments to complain about the manual, in any case.[/quote]

No, that wasn't my meaning. I meant to acknowledge that it is indeed my responsibility as much as anyone else's to do something about it. My "sorry that I can't" was sincere.