Re: Merging PHPLIB into PEAR

what are the plans in PEAR for dependencies on the pear components? for example, I would like to be able to use other pear libs in binarycloud without running into all sorts of conflicts, especially re: DB abstraction etc. best, _alex -- Alex Black, Head Monkey enigma@turingstudio.com The Turing Studio, Inc. http://www.turingstudio.com vox+510.666.0074 fax+510.666.0093 Saul Zaentz Film Center 2600 Tenth St Suite 433 Berkeley, CA 94710-2522 > From: sb@sebastian-bergmann.de (Sebastian Bergmann) > Organization: http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ > Newsgroups: php.general > Date: 17 Jan 2001 10:33:45 -0800 > Subject: [PHP] Merging PHPLIB into PEAR > > Hello there, > > Kristian Köhntopp and Ulf Wendel approached me today and told me that > they have decided to merge the existing classes and modules of > PHPLIB 7 and those that are currently beeing worked on (for PHPLIB > 8, which will now never be released) into PEAR and asked me to > coordinate efforts in order to do so. > > The merging with PHPLIB brings thought-through, well-tested classes > for Authorisation, User and Permission Management, classes for the > abstraction of forms (with Layout Management Engine) and a lot of > other stuff (table proxies, ...) into PEAR. > > I hope everyone is happy with this step, at least I am. :-) Why? > Until now there were two standard repositories one could use and now > there is the opportunity to join the strengths of both. > > One thing is for sure: The process of integrating PHPLIB's concept of > Auth/User/Perm into PEAR will not be finished over-night. > PHPLIB's Sess(ion) class is currently beeing ported to PHP 4 to act > as a wrapper for the native session-management functions of PHP 4. > What needs to be done now is port PHPLIB's classes for Auth/User/Perm > to PEAR::DB, because they are using PHPLIB's own database abstraction > system, which has come of age. > > Ulf Wendel is currently working on the new OOHForms and a Layout > Management System. I am sure he can elaborate on this topic on this > list. Ulf? > > A first, but rather unimportant step was my last commit which moved > the IT[X] template classes from phpdoc/redist to HTML/ and removed > the redist/ directory. > > Yours, > Sebastian > > -- > sebastian bergmann e-mail : sb@sebastian-bergmann.de > homepage : http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de > make a gift : http://wishlist.sebastian-bergmann.de > measure the usability of your web application -> > http://phpOpenTracker.de > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >