Re: PEAR Forum

On 25 Sep 2001 21:42:46 +0200, 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). +1. Perhaps we'll have a chance to sort this nicer when ZE2 will be released. - Martin