Re: Re: cvs: php4 /ext/printer php_printer.h printer.c printer.dsp /win32 php_modules.dsw

I think PEAR should be able to handle PHP extensions as well as the PHP user-space classes it is handling now. That is similar to the way CPAN works. -Rasmus On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > At 01:24 PM 10/28/00 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > >On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > PEAR (the PHP code at least) is part of the PHP 4 CVS. I was talking about > > > some repository where you can see PHP extensions and have some script > > which > > > will automatically put them in php4/ext and possible ./buildconf for you. > > > >PEAR should not really be part of PHP CVS. It is only so for the time > >being. Original discussion between Stig and me was about having it on > >pear.php.net similar to cpan.org. > > Well let's re-open this discussion on php-dev@ and see what we can do. > I don't know CPAN too well but I'm sure lots of people know the > strengths/problems with it and we might be able to come up with something nice. > In my opinion, it should be kept as simple as possible so that it will be > easy to implement and easy to use. > There are two main issues: > a) How do people post their stuff? > b) How do people retrieve things from there? > > Of course, each of these two issues have quite a lot of sub-issues which > need to be discussed and the hard part will be where to we draw the line > and not go into more detail. > > Andi > --- > Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> > http://www.zend.com/ > >