Re: Package proposal: PEAR_PackageGenerate

BIG +1 On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 09:58, Greg Beaver wrote: > Hi, > > Maintaining package releases is a headache even for smaller projects (as > evidenced by the recent accidental non-inclusion of Date/Span.php in the > Date package). > > PEAR_PackageGenerate reads in an existing package.xml file, and > generates a <release></release> section, then replaces the current > <release></release> tag with the new one. If the release tag is not > present, the file will not be modified. > > Exciting features: > 1) the filelist can be directly generated intelligently from a local CVS > checkout, ignoring non-CVS files, as well as the old-fashioned way from > a bare non-cvs directory > > 2) extreme control over file and directory roles, including generalities > (all .gif files as role="data"), and specific exclusions (file phpdoc as > role="script") > > 3) All of the wildcard ignore features present in phpDocumentor can be > used to exclude any number of files. > > 4) future possibility of plugins for other filelist generation > (subversion, for example). > > API Docs and highlighted source code are both available at: > > http://www.chiaraquartet.net/apidoc/ > > specific source code links: > > > http://www.chiaraquartet.net/apidoc//__filesource/fsource_PEAR_PackageGenerate__PackageGenerate.php.html > > http://www.chiaraquartet.net/apidoc//__filesource/fsource_PEAR_PackageGenerate__PackageGenerator_File.php.html > > http://www.chiaraquartet.net/apidoc//__filesource/fsource_PEAR_PackageGenerate__PackageGenerator_Cvs.php.html > > The name is debatable, as I don't like it currently. Putting it in the > PEAR Category would obviously make sense here. > > Note that the current version simply uses a regular expression to find > the old <filelist> section, and this will have to be modified at a > future date to be more intelligent, parsing the XML file, but I didn't > really feel this was a pre-requisite to package proposal. If enough > people feel this feature should be in the first release, I will delay > release until it is implemented. > > Note that since I started this package late this afternoon, and it is > early the next morning, I may have left out some of the documentation by > accident. It is fully tested and working, however. > > Greg -- Mirco 'meebey' Bauer PGP-Key: http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5051C9B9 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT d s-: a--- C++ UL++>++++ P L++$>+++$ E W+++$ N o? K- w++>! O- M- V? PS PE+ Y- PGP>++ t 5+ X++ R tv+ b+ DI? D+ G>++ e h! r>++ y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------