Re: Category question

Xavier Noguer wrote:

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"

Hi all, i'm not a pear developper, but would like to suggest something about packages search capabilities. A nice and IMHO simple thing would be feeding a new db field when submitting a package. This field would contain the package.xml description Tag , and then search package could be run against this field to find a package more efficiently. What do you think about that ? Regards -- Xavier