Re: standards etc..

(only some extra notes from me) jimw@apache.org wrote: > > Daniel Andersson <daniel@avantnoise.com> wrote: > > hum. okay, i can see this point. > > > > BUT, won't most of the HTML_* be dependent on HTML or? > > > > and if, then you still can't do minor releases but have to wait for HTML or > > HTML_* to finish. > > the basic problem is that with the more code you have in a pile that > is released as one big package, the harder it is to stabilize all the > pieces and actually release something. (witness the painful process of > actually doing a php release. there's a reason there's only been six > releases in over a year. :) > > the best way to handle this problem, that i've seen, is a packaging > system with rich conflict and dependency checking, a la dpkg. or cpan. > > seperating HTML from HTML_Table and HTML_Form in the cvs repository is > just a way of making the package boundaries clear. some packages may > include some of their subclasses, in which case they would be located > where you might expect. Also many Pear packages are distributed as independant components. For example you could just download Mail_mime or Net_NNTP without the need of all Mail or Net packages. > (one thing to keep in mind is that not all packages distributed from > pear.php.net will necessarily be in the pear cvs tree. it will be > possible to directly upload package releases. the pear cvs tree is > just a form of free cvs hosting, really.) For the moment we haven't yet in mind stablish any relation between CVS and the Pear package distribution web system. People will upload to the web pre-built packages made with the "pear package" command. > > and even if you had it HTML/Form you could still do small updates/releases. > > > > just adding a small installer of some sort that will install the package > > into the right directory :o) > > that is part of what is being built. > If you have a recent version of PHP (guess >= 4.0.5) try to launch the "pear" command at your command prompt. Yeah this is the builder/installer of pear packages. For real working example, try: # pear install http://vulcanonet.com/soft/upload/HTTP_Uploader-0.6.4.tgz (notes: will only work with the CVS version of the pear script and PEAR/* classes, and only under *nix). Tomas V.V.Cox