[itafroma]

It's not necessarily a problem, but it's a smell. Modern object-oriented PHP development is done with autoloaders[1]: having to require_once every class file is unnecessary and brittle. It is odd that GAE doesn't provide its own autoloader for its provided classes, and I'd expect that to be addressed in the future.

[1]: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.autoload.php

[dancecodes]

you mean spl_autoload

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.spl-autoload.php

[dancecodes]

more refine answer: just use spl_autoload_register

[dancecodes]

yes its smell