Re: [PEPr] Comment on Database::Mongo
| From: | Michael Gauthier | Date: | Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:18:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PEPr] Comment on Database::Mongo | ||
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On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 09:41 -0700, Joe Stump wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Kristina Chodorow wrote:
>
> > Hopefully this isn't a deal breaker!
>
> It is. It's PEAR's coding standards.
>
>
> >> 5) Your exception needs to extend PEAR_Exception
> >
> > I did this, but I am a bit worried about people not having PEAR
> > installed.
> > Is PEAR/Exception.php installed automatically with PHP? If not, I
> > don't
> > think I should depend on it. People could just download the .tgz.
>
> Again, this is part of PEAR's coding standards. We don't really
> support the type of installation you talk about. There's a reason
> there's a CLI utility to do this (it's there to enforce dependencies
> between packages, etc.).
>
As an possible solution, you could provide only security fixes to the
existing package and move new development to the version that gets
accepted in PEAR.
Cheers,
Mike