Re: Package (Re-)Proposal: HTML_Table_Matrix table autofiller

On Friday 21 November 2003 04:06 am, Klaus Guenther wrote: > Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> wrote: > > Hi Ian Eure, you wrote: > > > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 06:36 am, Arnaud Limbourg wrote: > > >> I guess a subpackage would work but a new package seems a bit too > > >> much. > > > > > > What do you mean by subpackage? I don't see that in the PEAR docs > > > anywhere. > > > > He most probably ment a module of HTML_Table. You should perhaps > > contact the maintainer(s) of HTML_Table. > > Subpackages were brought up earlier this year, and afaik, they are going to > be introduced to pear sometime soon (I hope). That way, you can keep a lean > and mean base package, and only install the drivers/modules you need. For > example, if you use DB, but only with MySQL, why install all the other > drivers? It's pure bloat. > Well, according to the thread "a case for subpackages[1]," a subpackage is just a regular package which depends on a base, and the base has the sub as an optional dependency. Which is exactly what HTML_Table_Matrix is doing right now; optionally providing extra functionality for HTML_Table. I'd have to get HTML_Table to depend optionally on H_T_M, but it obviously can't do that until H_T_M is in PEAR. :^) And since subpackages aren't implemented yet, is the topic relevant at this point in tim? [1]: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pear-dev&m=106178739829170&w=2