Re: why bloated packages are bad (a case for splitting up large packages)

On Sunday 14 August 2005 08:43 pm, Greg Beaver wrote: > Hello, > > There has been a lot of wrangling over PEAR_ErrorStack splitting off > from PEAR recently. It is important to understand why this is a good > idea. PEAR_ErrorStack is a single file. Developers wishing to use > PEAR_ErrorStack at present have implicit dependencies on Archive_Tar and > Console_Getopt because PEAR requires them, even though they have nothing > to do with PEAR_ErrorStack. > On this subject, do you care to answer Joe's question regarding the correct process for splitting a monolithic package up into subpackages? Do the individual subpackages have to go through PEPr, or can someone be contacted to set them up? > The MIME_Type [package] is used to differentiate > between unknown file extensions I believe (a very good thing), but this > will not be used by all users of File_Archive. > I actually split this functionality out of MIME_Type and into a patch for PHP_Compat[1], though it hasn't made it in yet. Simply calling mime_content_type() should be the correct thing to do in this case once that gets in, so that part of the problem will be alleviated. [1]: http://pear.php.net/bugs/4691

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