RE: [PEAR-DEV] Questions regarding adding a library

> Hi, Hi, > I currently maintain a PHP library of classes and am interested in > adding these classes to the PEAR repository! > > Obviously PEAR has many pros for adding a class, however in certain > situations (like mine) there are a few cons, for example: > > 1) my library has a farely large user base, and adding it to > PEAR would > mean slightly changing the name of each class, thus breaking > previous code. That is a problem indeed. One way is that you could use the pear installer to distribute your packages without having to integrate you work on pear cvs. I'm not saying that you shouldn't put your work in pear, don't mistake me ;) > 2) the current library has a single configuration file which sets > certain parmeters for the classes.. how could this be > accomodated by PEAR? Mm, afaik there is no such functionnality at the moment. > If I want to add a library to PEAR, should I just branch the current > release into a new set of classes? > > Any comments would be grateful? I do apologize in advance if > I have not > been able to articulate the questions that I'm asking myself. > > Regards, > > Kelvin