Re: Re: channel naming conventions

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:49:52 -0400, Davey <davey@php.net> wrote: > 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? > Personally I think that the installer should take care of this, to prevent rougue channels overwriting files from other channels - otherwise I could see some interesting hacks coming up in the future. > - Davey > > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >