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

Markus Tacker wrote: > Hoi, > >Lukas Smith wrote: > > >>For these reasons, I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to simply start >>over using our existing infrastructure? I recently proposed a new way >>of organizing packages via "groups" that would make this technically >>feasible. Unlike categories, these groups would be arbitrary, and would >>only affect how packages are listed at pearweb and with these PEAR commands: >> >>I would add a "groups" table so that packages could be in more than 1 >>group. Initial groups could be: >> >> - php5 (all php5+ packages in the repository >> - php4 (all php4-compatible packages in the repository) >> - siberia (all unmaintained packages) >> >> > > This could introduce the ability to maintain packages which have the same > purpose but work in different versions of PHP like a PHP5 only version > of a package which already exists as a PHP4/PHP% versions. > > Above said may IMO be of a high value for PHP6. > > There could also be a PHP5-strict group as PHP4 packages work in PHP5 > but not with E_STRICT... > > And where is the proposal? > on pear-core mailing list, which is where changes to the installer are discussed. Greg