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

Steve Bach wrote:

Hi, I am interested in developing Semantic Web packages for PEAR. Specifically, I'd like to build an RDF API. I see that PEAR already has RDF functionality, but I'm not sure if it is a fully developed package. Without meaning to criticize the work that the developers have done on the package, I see several points that make me think that a better RDF API can be developed: 1. The 4 RDF packages are listed as not maintained. 2. They appear to be in 0.1.0 Alpha release. 3. They are ports of another API that has since implemented many more features. 4. No releases have been made in almost 3 years.

Correct. I did the initial port. I fixed up a few things, added MDB2 support and tried to improve the error handling. However the code from RAP left a lot to be desired. Mainly it was written for academic demo purposes and not really as a real world library. This is evident in the fact that most error cases just result in a fatal error. I do not remember all the other issues I saw in this code, but if you are interested I dig up some emails I send to the RAP developers back then. They told me in reply that they will not fix the structural issues, since they intend to rewrite everything to PHP5. I have not followed the RAP development since the last/first release of the RDF packages in PEAR. regards, Lukas