RE: [PEAR-DEV] Category question

> From: Xavier [mailto:xav@spotk.net] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 9:04 AM > To: pear-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] 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 ? yup that is what I was also thinking of. Regards, Lukas