Re: Re: dependencies and applications

On 21 Aug 2003 at 15:49, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:14:24 +0800 > Alan Knowles <alan@akbkhome.com> wrote: > > > I think it should follow unix standard here.. > > > > $phpdir/pear/MDB.1.0.php > > $phpdir/pear/MDB.2.0.php > > where > > $phpdir/pear/MDB.php is softlinked to $phpdir/pear/MDB.2.0.php > > > > on windows you will have to copy the latest one into place....as it > > doesnt have softlinks... > > > > one of the beauties about pear at present is the direct mapping of > > classname=>include path.. - which makes locating code alot > > simpler... > > > > I would also suggest making this as a configuratable option., as > > it's a bit of an overhead.. for alot of installations. > > > > > > I missed though why you could not just point php_dir at another > > folder, then call the installer internally to install all the > > packages in order... > > PEAR already supports multiple installations folder using the same > pear command. > > I do not like that much the MDB.1.0.php things or whatever it will be > named. > > If you need the new version, upgrade it in the right install. If you > like to test major release, install a new tree. > > This feature sounds like creating a mess to me :). And I'm not sure > it'll be possible to make it. How could I include the right file? As > Alan told us, win32 platform cannot use links, this is another stoping > point. Maybe not use MDB/MDB.php any longer after 2.0 or 2.5 as I proposed? Instead MDB/2.0/MDB.php could be made available on next minor release of pear as well - so installing all packages twice would be a clean solution I guess. This doesn't take MUCH more harddisk and is only needed until 2.5. Maybe if we introduce the warning-thing in 2.0 - and as of 2.5 we drop BC completely. Another solution I can think of for the moment would be to have MDB/MDB.php be automatically generated and simply contain an include('MDB/2.0/MDB.php'); since this seems similar to a "link" under Linux and works on all systems. Requesting more feedback Stefan