Re: @foo@ / templates / sub packages

hey Joe On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> wrote: > 1.) Does anyone have a definitive list of variable names the PEAR installer > will replace via the @foo@ stuff? I believe I updated the manual with the latest list of all of these -- but, for the most part they are just the pear config values. http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.developers.package2.tasks.php#guide.developers.package2.tasks.replace > 2.) Where do people put template files? If you use @data_dir@ and expect > your code to have that expanded how do you easily test without packaging and > installing? For the most part I use the data_dir for temp storage, and copy files over to the user's preferred location with a post-install script, and make my own replacements at that point in time (allows multiple installs using the templates if you're using a system-wide pear install). I usually just script my installs with a file that has all my responses to the post install script questions pre-determined. But I always test it by installing the package. I don't think it's too difficult to install... I have an icon in my dock which just runs a script that installs the package and executes my post-install script with my test machine's defaults. But I can see some advantages to run it out of CVS without installing first. In those instances I use something like: $data_dir = '@@DATA_DIR@@'; if ($data_dir == '@@'.'DATA_DIR@@') { //use my cvs location } Which is harder to do in those files that aren't PHP.. like templates I realize. :-/ This is a sticky issue, maybe someone else has some good ideas. But, installing the package and using the post-install script is the best way I've found to handle this. > 3.) Anyone know where sub packages are documented? Not me.. > 4.) If you know the PEAR installer inside and out and are looking for work > contact me offlist (or if you're a Python/PHP coder and just think working > at Digg would be fun). hehe... sounds like fun. Keep up the good work you guys are doing! I saw the microformats & rdfa announcement... great work. -- Brett Bieber http://saltybeagle.com/