Re: Re: [PEPr] +1 for System::Daemon

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Kevin van Zonneveld <kevin@vanzonneveld.net> wrote: > > In it's current form, System_Daemon still works if you don't have PEAR > available on a server. > > The default is just to use PEAR, but it runs in standalone mode when > you specifically tell it to start($usePEAR = false); > > This gives you the freedom to expiriment or include System_Daemon in > existing projects without having to install/upgrade PEAR and maybe > worry about affecting other projects/sites on a server. > > Of course using stand-alone mode denies all of PEAR's advantages > (exceptions, updates, log package, etc), but currently that's entirely > up to the end-user/developer. There are some projects that have this > package as an SVN:external, and require nothing else to run except for > Linux & PHP-CLI > 5.2.1 > > If it is a deal breaker I can always remove all the conditional > PEAR-independent-code & make it PEAR-only, but I personally would like > to maintain this duality. Let me know. > PhpDocumentor is another package that is built to run outside of a PEAR installation... just "unzip and go". IIRC it sets a constant once based on whether or not PEAR performed a directory marker replacement upon installation, thereby making the package itself permanently "aware" of its own "PEAR status". That could take the burden off of your package's caller, no longer requiring the caller to know whether or not the daemon library is PEAR-installed or not. -- CRB