Re: PEAR Forum

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: > PEAR has room for larger packages like Phorum (the "A" in PEAR is for > "Application" after all), but we haven't quite figured out a way to > integrate them yet. > > We need to figure out how to fit applications into the package > namespace. I guess it cooks down to picking one of these two options: > > 1. Each application gets its own top-level package name. Pros: > simple. Cons: may clash with topics we may want to add later. If > application packages have fairly unique names it shouldn't matter. > > 2. Each application prepends something to its package name, for > example "App_". Pros: won't clash with topics. Cons: it just > looks silly. > > I'm in favor of (1). When we have namespaces, how about all apps go into PEARApp namespace? -Andrei * It's an emergent property of human minds to create. *