Re: Re: my state of the pear address from a while back

Markus Wolff wrote: > Greg Beaver schrieb: > >> I would add a "groups" table so that packages could be in more than 1 >> group. Initial groups could be: > > [...] > >> So, for instance, a package like XML_Tree could be in php4 and siberia >> at the same time, and moving a package into or out of a group would be a >> seamless operation, just update the database and some REST files. > > [...] > >> views is another way of saying what I mean by groups, and "view" might >> be a clearer name. > > > Reading this, I immediately had to think of "tags", like those found > in Gmail, Flickr and the likes. Maybe instead of categories a future > PEAR should just assign tags to its packages? That way, a package > available for PHP5 which can output both HTML and XML and, say, has > something to do with data structures, could have the tags PHP5, HTML. > XML and Structures. One could filter through suitable packages quite > nicely that way. My immediate response is that this is more extensive than I envisioned simply because I want something lightweight and easy to implement/debug, but on reflection it seems that groups could be used for this purpose (and you can call them tags if it makes you happy) but we need to consider performance implications of any addition to pearweb, both in terms of disk space and speed, so the simpler the better. Greg