Re: Registering PECL pear web

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Michael Bretterklieber wrote: > Hi, > > Mika Tuupola wrote: > > >On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Michael Bretterklieber wrote: > > > > > > > >>I would like to register my radius-PECL with the pear-web > >>(http://pear.php.net/package-new.php). > >> > >>What should I choose as package name? Radius or NET_Radius? > >> > >>PECL's have no category, should I choose Networking here? > >> > >> > > > > This bring me to another question. How do we differ > > PECL packages on pearweb? Currently you can > > only guess from different naming scheme (for example > > mailparse http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?pacid=143) > > > > I think people should be able to easily see which packages > > need compiling and which dont. > > > maybe we should add a <type> entity to the package.xml? > <type>PECL</type> > or > <type>PHP</type> The "package type" determines which package naming standard is used, so this is not such a bad idea. But if the purpose is just to see whether installing a package requires compiling C/C++ code, the presence of "src" files is enough. There are more similar package types that need handling in the future (applications, Gtk components, pre-built extensions), I'll have to go into the thinking box on this one. - Stig