Relativ Includes

(posted this to pear-general by mistake) Hi, well PEAR still has a serious problem imho with the issues we thought we could solve with dirname(__FILE__): 1) How to handle includes within PEAR packages. Basically we need a solution which makes it trivial to keep PEAR packages outside of search paths for two reasons: - Some people might not have access to this path because they have a controlled enviornement - Some people might not find it feasible to keep them pear packages in a global search path because they don’t want the packages to be updated globally and also need applications which contain pear packages to be in one subdir 2) We also need to tackle the following issue: being able to run package tests within CVS against the code in CVS. Solving the above issue probably solves most of the problem. As an aside: I guess handling tests on pear packages that include other pear packages might need some manual adjustments in some cases. Let me explain: usually a developer will probably want to test their package against the latest stable release of that included package and the tests will be run in some dev environment where the developer can make of include paths to ensure that the packages can be included. In the rare circumstance that a developer wants to test his package against another package which is also still in CVS he will need to make the adjustments to his includes manually. I hope that maybe some brainstorming at the PHP conference will bring a solution, but to make sure everybody should maybe do some thinking in advance :-) Regards, Lukas Smith smith@dybnet.de _______________________________ DybNet Internet Solutions GbR Reuchlinstr. 10-11 Gebäude 4 1.OG Raum 6 (4.1.6) 10553 Berlin Germany Tel. : +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax : +49 30 83 22 50 07 www.dybnet.de info@dybnet.de