Re: PEAR Forum

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). > What about a top level "Apps" category? Any way, apps like Phorum needs to be enterily installed under the web document root and installing it in the pear base directory hasn't much sense (at least public files). Tomas V.V.Cox