Category question
| From: | Greg Beaver | Date: | Sun, 18 May 2003 00:17:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Category question | ||
| Groups: | php.pear.dev | ||
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Hi,
I'd like to open a can of worms for future discussion :).
When I'm trying to find a package, it is often difficult to figure out exactly which category it belongs in. Why not allow packages to fall into more than one category? For instance, the Tree class would logically be placed into Structures, DB, and XML since it is all three.
I would really like to see PEAR become more user-friendly, and this is definitely a way to do that. Perhaps documentation could also be generated in those categories as in:Tree docs are under Structures, and a "See Structures::Tree" link (like the Yellow Pages under Cab says "See Taxi") is in XML and DB docs for Tree. This would certainly cut down on the questions "is this in PEAR?" since things would be filed under the multiple categories they belong in. Most packages probably fit into one category, but this would also satisfy ambiguities like template engines, which really should be categorized under both HTML and Templates, for example. This would also allow placing core packages under their respective categories, and under core (or PFC or whatever it will be called). Greg