Re: Re: cvs: php4 / TODO-4.1.txt

> >When we're past the prototyping phase and stuff stabilizes, a C > >rewrite may be a good idea, but I don't think it is now. > > Well you know the most permanent things are temporary things such as > prototypes. > I also thought it would make much more sense to create something very small > in C (maybe even Perl as it's installed on all systems) and use that. > I'm not really sure anymore what this installer you are talking about looks > like. So I think it would be good to get a small update and have a > discussion of what we need on php-dev@. I see no issue with writing a prototype in PHP. The start of such a prototype is in cvs (pear/script/pear) And yes, using XML is pretty much a no-brainer here. That will allow a lot of different nifty tools to access the package information. -Rasmus