Re: [PEPr] Comment on Database::Mongo

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Michael Gauthier <mike@silverorange.com> wrote: > 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 > > Additionally -- until a package hits 1.0.0. (= stable), API breaks are allowed and BC doesn't have to be honoured. Till