Re: Contributing FAQ, Questions

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Justin Patrin wrote:

On 10/16/06, Peter Beckman <beckman@purplecow.com> wrote: [snip]

     2. Released the code under the GNU GPL (due to the fact that this is a
        derivative work of GPL'ed code)

Hmmm...the GPL isn't in our list of accepted licenses currently as it precludes linking in closed source and commercial applications. See the FAQ question about licenses. An exception may be made for your package, we'll have to see. How is this a derivative work exactly?

It's an implementation of Telephony::CountryDialingCode:

    http://search.cpan.org/~cmanley/Telephony-CountryDialingCodes-1.02/lib/Telephony/CountryDialingCodes.pm

I plan on expanding it, but if you use code from a GPL'ed app, as I understand it any code derived from GPL'ed code must remain GPL'ed.

[snip]

Also, for packages in a specific category, would the CVS directory structure look like this:

     /package.xml
     /Numbers
     /Numbers/PackageName.php
     /Numbers/test.php
     /docs

or

     /package.xml
     /PackageName.php
     /test.php
     /docs

Test related files should be in test/ or tests/ (not sure which, look at current packages). You can choose to have the Numbers directory or not, there's no rule on this. Of course it would have to be installed to the Numbers/ directory.

And the "Numbers" portion would go in the package.xml? I'm still trying to understand the package.xml, though using Pear_packageFileManager will help. Has anyone ever done a step by step tutorial on how to turn your existing single-file library into a PEAR package, something that is up-to-date and true to current requirements? Beckman ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy
beckman@purplecow.com                             http://www.purplecow.com/

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