RE: [PEAR-DEV] an idea for get pear more exposure

> -----Original Message----- > From: Wolfram Kriesing [mailto:lists@kriesing.de] > Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 12:56 PM > To: smith@dybnet.de > Cc: pear-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] an idea for get pear more exposure > > Lukas Smith wrote: > > > How about the following?: > > [optionally] interface pearweb release system with freshmeat > > > > Every package manager would be able to choose if he wants his release > > announced no freshmeat as well. This way PEAR packages would get more > > exposure. > > > > Just a thought that I want to throw out there. > > cool idea. > i think we have to talk to the freshmeat guys, because they once > rejected a release of PEAR::Tree because i didnt release it as an > independent package, which was downloadable and able to run without > pear. (i think they said you release it on pear, so you have to anounce > it there) > > so i think that either > (1) the time will come once PEAR is installed with PHP by default and > packages that run based on PEAR become 'normal' or 'standard', so this > is no reason anymore for the freshmeat guys to reject packages > or > (2) every PEAR-package has to be able to run independently, which in my > eyes doesnt make much sense and is not possible anyway, and not meant to > be, i guess > or > (3) one can convince the freshmeat guys that PEAR-based packages are > 'allowed' to be announced on frehsmeat :-) > > anyway ... i think it would be great to arrange some kind of way to > announce pear packages on freshmeat well i have MDB on freshmeat ... anyways freshmeat can handle dependencies, so I see no reason why depending on other stuff is a problem. Regards, Luukas