Re: Fix for PEAR Cache_Container_db.php

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 22:37, Christian Stocker wrote: > Hi Lorenzo > > Can you make a unified diff patch file out of this and not sending the > whole code. It makes it much easier to see, what you changed and i don't > have to do copy&paste and fighting with some funny whitespacehandling of > my mailclients :) > > Concerning your MDB Container, the problem I have with it, is just that > we need then to make a dependency on MDB and MDB will be installed if > you want PEAR::Cache and this is some kind of not-expecting for everyone > who doesn't use the MDB Container... Are there any possiblities, to make > a dependency just a "suggested additional packages needed" :) I'm sure > someone of you guys thought about that before. I am planning to introduce something called "soft dependencies". This is basically a dependency that lets you specify which version of X you need if X is installed. If X is not installed, the soft dependency does not apply. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb