RE: [PEAR-DEV] PEAR extension for Macromedia Ultradev ???

Well, if we have an experimental, why not a /commercial? I think that cybercash should definitely be in there. Just an idea... -B -----Original Message----- From: Alan T. Miller [mailto:amiller@hollywood101.com] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:21 AM To: Martin Jansen Cc: pear-dev@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PEAR-DEV] PEAR extension for Macromedia Ultradev ??? Martin, > >The main thing I guess would be to develop a framework for > creating Ultradev > >extensions out of PEAR packages, > > I see a big problem here: If we once begin to somehow support the > commercial product UltraDev by promoting parts of it through our > website, soon other (non-)commercial IDE projects will come up with > the idea of distributing packages for their IDE along from > pear.php.net. I can see there being political issues when it concerns commercial products but ultimately we have to bend a bit and already are. After all, PEAR's database abstraction layer currently supports Oracle, Microsoft SQL server and Sybase. Are we not supporting commercial products now in doing so? In my mind Microsft and Oracle are more evil than Macromedia (but that is just my own personal opinion :) ). What I am proposing for such a framework mentioned before, is not to change PEAR in any way, but to bring to the users of Macromedia's software an abstraction layer so to speak between PEAR and Macromedia Ultradev (we would just be using Macromedia's API to do so, and perhaps CVS to develop it). It would only make sense to make these extensions known and even better, available alongside the PEAR extensions if they exist. If other commercial companies want to develop extensions for their product that takes advantage of PEAR with their own API, then we might think seriously about it then. As for creating extended Macromedia extensions for different PEAR packages, maybe we ought to consider how such things might be included in the current web scheme under development. Although to be honest, I cannot think of what other commercial products would use such a thing at the moment. However, such extensibility might be useful for added documentation, tutorials, sample scripts using the different modules with each package etc. I am as much a socialist as anyone else, and maybe integrating an Ultradev extension scheme on the web is too much right now. However, I do think we ought to think about creating an Ultradev extension that brings some of the benefits of PEAR such as error reporting and the Database connectivity to the Ultradev's graphical interface. I am more than interested in working on such a beast. -- PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: pear-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: pear-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net