Re: Re: I'm Interested in Developing Semantic Web Packages for PEAR

Steve Bach wrote:

Till, On 6/8/07, till <klimpong@gmail.com> wrote:

Steve, On 6/9/07, Steve Bach <stephenhbach@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the information Christian. I was hoping to get a

consensus on

whether the PEAR developers would be more interested in someone taking

up

the maintenance of some or all of those packages, or building a new,

wider

API for RDF.

I am just wondering, but way not restart the work left on the package, or do you think that is not possible? Just my thoughts.

I think it's possible to update these ports, but from the limited look I've given the current state of RAP, I think that their API has changed significantly since this port was made. We'd be doing quite a bit of rewriting, and so if we're starting from the ground up anyway, I think we would benefit from doing a fresh analysis of how the core RDF API should work in PEAR, and then begin expanding that into the many specs that the W3C has defined for the Semantic Web, including many of the ones that RAP has already done work on. Since they've published under the LGPL, we could use their implementation as guidance.

It is ok to start from scratch :)

Also, I think there's a lot to be said for rebuilding it to use PHP5 features, such as its DOM class.

Indeed. Arnaud.