Re: UPS Package

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:44:21 +0100, Stephan Schmidt <schst@php-tools.net> wrote: > Hi, > > bertrand Gugger schrieb: > > > So, what is with services not in America. > > Should not the concept be open to more general parcel ("packages") service. > > "packages" as I was not sure what package meant in Tim's original message. > > Anyway, a few pear packages are allready some kind of regional... > UPS is *not* regional, they are quite commen in Germany as well. I would > not encourage anyone to write a unified API for parcel services, like > UPS, FedEx, DPD, etc. They offer different services, using different > protocols and authentication mechanisms. Trying to unify this, well make > the package a lot more complicated. > I have to disagree. Having a unified method of accessing rates would be very nice. I've already made my own quick and dirty packages for UPS, USPS, and FedEx and at least the rate services are very similar. IMHO this would be a great place to unify and have a factory kind of system. > BTW: I'd be happy to have a package for UPS in PEAR, so go ahead and > start a proposal, I guess comments will follow once the information is > available in pearweb. Mails tend to get lost on pear-dev... > -- Justin Patrin