Re: Re: PEAR (was: Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/midgard config.m4)

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >Because the whole point of this was to make life easier on midgard users. So you're saying that every widely used external (at the moment) php-extension should be put into PHP CVS? :) >And there are a lot of them. There are not a lot of php-gtk users out >there, and people interested in php-gtk don't tend to need as much >handholding as midgard users. :) >Having midgard in the PEAR infrastructure makes sense once the PEAR >infrastructure is such that it is easy to install PEAR components that >include C bits. And yes, perhaps the midgard folks are the right people >to push this along, if they are willing and able. Isn't php-gtk done like the way the PEAR (C) components should be done? At least that's how I compiled that extension. Separately from PHP. Using phpize. So I would guess having e.g. midgard outside PHP shouldn't matter at all? >Another motivator is the readline extension. Get that into PEAR as a >separate easily installable PEAR component and make it LGPL'ed and we >avoid any Stallman hassles on that particular extension. True, true. :) >I've been fiddling with a TiVo extension that would also fit better in >PEAR than in the main PHP distribution. And there are also these Windows-only extensions, com , dotnet (?), printer. Hmm, now that I remember..IMO we should create some better tree structure into the ext/ dir. ie. ext/dbms/ oci8 mysql pgsql . . ext/xml/ sablot qtdom dom . . ext/windows/ :) Or is this a bad idea? --Jani >On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jani Taskinen wrote: > >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> >> >PEAR will be separate at some point, but let's not go overboard here. The >> >midgard stuff adds a total of 76K to the tar.gz file. Big deal. >> >> I was talking in general, not only midgard. The pear stuff takes >> a lot more than 76k..and this has been pushed further and further into >> the future EVERY time it's talked about. So why not make it a separate >> (pear) module in CVS now? It isn't something that HAS to be in, or is it? >> And if we continue distributing it with PHP we never get PEAR to be >> what it should be. If the answer still is "at some point", why not add >> the php-gtk to the PHP distribution too? :) (I don't want that to happen..) >> >> --Jani >> >> >> > > >