Re: Re: dependencies and applications
| From: | Pierre-Alain Joye | Date: | Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:04:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: dependencies and applications | ||
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:58:01 +0200
"Stefan Neufeind" <stefan@neufeind.net> wrote:
nt.
>
> 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.
Ah much better :) I even feel myself as dummy to do not think to that as
an alternative.
This kind of changes will take times to be possible (not only
technically) but will definitively help a lot.
pierre