Re: subpackage proposal
| From: | Christian Dickmann | Date: | Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:52:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: subpackage proposal | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear.dev |
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> I'm wondering the best way to solve a problem that may not be unique to
> phpDocumentor.
>
> Right now, we have several converters, and the codebase is getting rather
> large (we're almost to a megabyte, compressed). I'd like to be able to
> release the core and converters separately, to allow users to download the
> converters they plan to use, and not the others. Not everyone, for
> instance, will need the CHM and PDF converters.
>
> Is it possible to release subpackages, and tell pear to install them in a
> subdirectory of PhpDocumentor?
Well you could just release 2 or more packages. The core package and
the convertes. The converters depend on the core. In the package.xml
you can specify the path where files are installed, so the converter could
be installed in the correct position. No need for a special subpackage
handling.
Christian Dickmann
BTW: You didn't answer my last email, this stalls the template development.