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alan_k Fri Jul 12 04:30:41 2002 EDT Modified files: /pearweb/weeklynews 20020714.en.html Log: typo and spellchecked Index: pearweb/weeklynews/20020714.en.html diff -u pearweb/weeklynews/20020714.en.html:1.2 pearweb/weeklynews/20020714.en.html:1.3 --- pearweb/weeklynews/20020714.en.html:1.2 Fri Jul 12 02:33:25 2002 +++ pearweb/weeklynews/20020714.en.html Fri Jul 12 04:30:41 2002 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <small><i>by Alan Knowles alan_k@php.net</i></small> <p>It's been another busy week in PEAR world, 2 stable releases and 5 beta releases, along with interesting discussion on SQL parses, builders and errors, -standards, &nbsp;PEAR in PLD Linux Distribution, alot of new contributions +standards, &nbsp;PEAR in PLD Linux Distribution, a lot of new contributions and 3 new package proposals. <br> </p> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Internet Message Encapsulation, SOAP support for SOAP protocol and packages, DBA - provides a class based interface to DBM style databases (and can emulate it with files), PEAR_Frontend_Web which provides a web interface to the PEAR -installer, and DB_DataObjects which is a SQL builder and Data Modeling Layer. +installer, and DB_DataObject which is a SQL builder and Data Modeling Layer. <p> </p> @@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ <h2>PEAR-DEV traffic </h2> -<h3>DB::Sybase - Sybase Errors for the DB abstraction layer </h3>Anotonio Carlos Venancio Junior popped up to volunteer to help complete the error messages in the Sybase backend<h3>DBA - The Berkley DB wrapper and an SQL Parser </h3>Brent -Cook is finishing off the DBA (Berkley DB) interface layer that includes alot +<h3>DB::Sybase - Sybase Errors for the DB abstraction layer </h3>Anotonio Carlos Venancio Junior popped up to volunteer to help complete the error messages in the Sybase back end<h3>DBA - The Berkley DB wrapper and an SQL Parser </h3>Brent +Cook is finishing off the DBA (Berkley DB) interface layer that includes a lot of tools for making Flat file DBA's look a bit like SQL databases, as part of this he has built a pretty comprehensive SQL parser which may end up being -usefull in the future for other purposes... (note this package was originally +useful in the future for other purposes... (note this package was originally DB_DBA)<br> <h3>SQL Builders and Added Features on PEAR:DB</h3> A few people jumped in asking about SQL builders, or adding more features @@ -47,19 +47,19 @@ DBA and DB_DataObject both used delete methods, this would break in PHP5. Brent changed the delete method to remove in DBA, Alan meanwhile started a brief discussion with Andi to see if delete could be allowed as a class -method, and recieved a favourable response, pending a final decision when +method, and received a favorable response, pending a final decision when Andi gets back from his holiday.<br> -<h3>Thanks to these people for contributing Miscelaneous fixes and spotting bugs </h3>Dan Allen, James Flemmer, Paul Cooper, Marco Wittwer, Yavor Shahpsov<br> +<h3>Thanks to these people for contributing Miscellaneous fixes and spotting bugs </h3>Dan Allen, James Flemmer, Paul Cooper, Marco Wittwer, Yavor Shahpsov<br> <br> <h3>Weekly News - Publishing and Translations </h3> -Alexander Merz has been translating the weekly news into german, if you are +Alexander Merz has been translating the weekly news into German, if you are interested in spending an hour a week, translating (and/or interpreting) the goings on in the pear community into other languages, please post a message to the pear-dev mailing list. The schedule is that the last draft of the -english PWN should be completed on the friday, and hopefully most translations -completed by monday/tuesday the next week.. - announcements will be posted -on monday, again suggestions on where to post the announcements is welcome.<br> +English PWN should be completed on the Friday, and hopefully most translations +completed by Monday/Tuesday the next week.. - announcements will be posted +on Monday, again suggestions on where to post the announcements are welcome.<br> <br> <h3>PLD Linux Distribution&nbsp; includes PEAR </h3> PLD Linux Distribution (www.pld.org.pl) will be distributing pear packages @@ -72,20 +72,20 @@ Lukas Smith brought up the idea of using dirname(__FILE__) . '/filename.php' rather than the current 'package/filename.php' in include and require statements. there was only one +1 for this, however Lukas later noted that it may cause -difficulties if package manager wanted to do any automatic dependancy resolution. -It was noted that many people dont always use pear packages from the 'pear +difficulties if package manager wanted to do any automatic dependency resolution. +It was noted that many people don't always use pear packages from the 'pear installed' directory, but put them in a subdirectory of their application and modify the include_path using ini_set().<br> -<h3>Licences and encoding </h3> +<h3>Licenses and encoding </h3> Brent Cook posted an interesting article on why he chose -to use the LGPL, rather than the PHP Licence for the DBA package, if you -are looking at the licence for your package, it's an <a href="http://lists.php.net/article.php?group=php.pear.cvs&amp;article=4936">interesting analysis</a>. +to use the LGPL, rather than the PHP License for the DBA package, if you +are looking at the license for your package, it's an <a href="http://lists.php.net/article.php?group=php.pear.cvs&amp;article=4936">interesting analysis</a>. In a related discussion it was asked if pear could be distributed as an encoded -file (eg. the zend bytecode compiler) or similar. All the current licences +file (eg. the zend bytecode compiler) or similar. All the current licenses allowed this form of distribution (eg. of encoded, unmodified pear files).<br> <h3>XML_RPC and SOAP pluggable transport layers </h3> -James Flemmer contributed a patch to XML_RPC to allow plugin transport layers -- enabling transport by http, https, unix socket and carrier pidgeon.. Shane +James Flemmer contributed a patch to XML_RPC to allow plug-in transport layers +- enabling transport by http, https, unix socket and carrier pigeon.. Shane &nbsp;Caraveo suggested coordinating the effort of the SOAP module so they can share transport layers.<br> <br> @@ -98,12 +98,12 @@ <hr> <h2>Proposed Packages:</h2> -<h3>User Authenticaiton and Access Control Layer management</h3> +<h3>User Authentication and Access Control Layer management</h3> Markus wolff proposed pearifying his <a href="http://projects.21st-hq.de/liveuser/">User and ACL management classes</a> and adding to pear, and was interested in feedback.<br> <h3> -<h3>Template_Flexy &nbsp;- Yet Another Templating class</h3> -</h3>Alan (yes the PWN author), suggested adding his <a href="http://docs.akbkhome.com/Template_Flexy/">Template_Flexy</a> -class to pear, he recieve got at least one +1, The class offers a very simple +</h3><h3>Template_Flexy &nbsp;- Yet Another Templating class</h3> +Alan (yes the PWN author), suggested adding his <a href="http://docs.akbkhome.com/Template_Flexy/">Template_Flexy</a> +class to pear, he receive got at least one +1, The class offers a very simple API, mixed with a class focused fast templating engine, based on wolframs simpletemplate.<br> <h3> @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ <br> <h2>Documentation</h2> The DB_DataObject documentation has been added to the manual<br> +<br> <br> <br> </body></html>