Re: PEAR and Smarty

<mail@martin-jansen.de> wrote : > [Moving this thread over to pear-dev.] > > On Wed Jul 17, 2002 at 11:0540AM +0200, Bertrand Mansion wrote: >> le 17/07/02 3:23, Zachery Hostens à zhostens@mchsi.com a écrit : >> >>> I was just curious as to why Smarty isnt (and hasent) ever been commited as >>> to apart of PEAR :-/ >> >> It's up to Smarty's authors to decide. >> But IMO, they made the wrong choice not to make it in PEAR. > > One fine day Andrei Zmievski (who is now know to be prisoned by Stig > Bakken in Boston) pointed out that he wouldn't object if someone came > up with a plan to merge Smarty into PEAR. But since noone did so at > that time and since Smarty has it's own prominent homepage > (http://smarty.php.net/) now, I don't see a reason why it should be > merged into PEAR. Well, that's not what I remind happened. I remember that Andrei didn't want to conform to pear coding standards (helloWorld not hello_world). I wonder how he does now that he is Stig's prisoner. :-) > Perhaps it would nevertheless be a wise idea to create a package.xml > file for Smarty, so that it can be installed smoothly via the PEAR > installer. The lack of package.xml file for Smarty is the main reason why I think it's a pity it didn't make it into PEAR. Other than that, I must admit I don't really care about where Smarty is hosted. If one can use the pear installer to install it, then it will be just fine. But the Smarty configuration file has to remain editable (and then, not located in /usr/lib/php). This is the only problem I see. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam