Re: Bundling Console_Getopt with the PEAR package

On Thursday, July 3, 2003 13:46, Jan Schneider wrote: > Now imagine what happens if Console_Getopt is removed as a standalone > package from PEAR... I didn't say that the package will be removed. It will stay avaible, just a change in it's description tag to say something like: "This package is now part of the PEAR package and it's no longer maintained as an standalone package" and add a dependency to say that requires PEAR < version X.X (where X.X is the version with a shipped Console Getopt). The advantages of this change are: 1) The PEAR package will become self contained, this is, it won't need other package to work. Now it's a little bit strange to install this package before installing the installer. 2) Drop the task of maintaining a separate pacackage.xml and releasing new versions at the web (nowadays the package at the web and the pacakge installed by php or go-pear are different but have the same version number which is clearly wrong). 3) Add extra features to the PEAR package. 4) The maintainers of the PEAR package will take care on maintaing the Console_Getopt package. 5) People who want a class to handle cmd line arguments will install PEAR ;) -- Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:cox@idecnet.com