Re: channel naming conventions

Greg Beaver wrote:

Hi, We need to come up with naming conventions for channels to help avoid conflicts. A prefix could be used to distinguish private channels from official channels. We could require all private channels to prefix with "_", as in "_chiara" for the random private channel that distributes packages for the unofficial "chiara" channel located somewhere in Italy. This would avoid any confusion with the "chiara" channel for the unrelated public channel that is (will be) registered at pear.php.net. Alternately, we could recommend that all private channels be named after their server as in "chiara.example.it" and only public servers would be given nicknames that differ from their server. This seems most practical to me. Any brighter ideas? Greg

What about doing 2 things: 1) Maintain a channel registry on pear.php.net 2) Allow the user to specify the prefix on install to avoid conflict. I do have a question, all channel packages should be called: Channel_Category_Package right? And are installed in $php_bin/Channel/Category/Package.php ?? So, for example, I would have: Crtx/Template/Parser.php Does the installer take care of this Crtx/ dir? or should I make Crtx/Template the base install dir? - Davey