Re: Bundling Console_Getopt with the PEAR package

Zitat von Pierre-Alain Joye <paj@pearfr.org>: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:46:02 +0200 > Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org> wrote: > > > Now imagine what happens if Console_Getopt is removed as a standalone > > package from PEAR... > > That's why Tomas asked it. The idea is to prevent such bad events. That > said, once we clearly announce that some weeks before do it, that should > not be a problem. This is crap. You'll never know if there is a supercool tool out there that depends on a pear package that will never ever release any new version. PEAR packages should NEVER be removed IMO. Let them be unmaintained, outdated, ugly; you just don't know if it's used anywhere. > The different packages will get time to update their docs and their > dependencies (in or out of pear.php.net). And the current release will > *always* be available. > > Being part of the "core", GetOpt will be available as well for everyone > who does not take care about deps using package definitions. > > So the question should be, what is the good time span to do not create a > mess once we merge the 2 packages? i.e. I do not think that should be > the case in the upcoming 4.3.3 but rather in a (if it'll exist) 4.4 or > 5.x. > > hth > > pierre > > Jan. -- http://www.horde.org - The Horde Project http://www.ammma.de - discover your knowledge http://www.tip4all.de - Deine private Tippgemeinschaft