Re: .registry files in xmlrpc format

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Bertrand Mansion wrote: > Hi all, > > Are there any plans to make the .registry files in a xml format compatible > with xmlrpc ? This would make my life easier for parsing the data to display > the installed packages in a client app. The registry stuff is slow enough as it is, converting it to XML is really out of the question. If you need to deal with the registry, use the PEAR_Registry class. If you need any functionality there, let me know. > Are there going to be subcategories in categories to put packages in. For > instance, I've seen that in the category table there were parent, right and > left fields. Are we going to use them ? I am thinking about HTML/Template > for instance. IMHO Templating packages deserve their own top-level category, since they can be used for whatever markup format. - Stig