Re: Re: PEAR and Smarty

On Wed Jul 17, 2002 at 06:5211PM +0200, Bertrand Mansion wrote: > <mail@martin-jansen.de> wrote : > > 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. :-) That was another point in the discussion. IIRC we got down to the point where Andrei a) did not want to change the API and b) nevertheless welcomed everyone who wanted to merge Smarty into PEAR (while keeping the API). >Other than that, I must admit I don't > really care about where Smarty is hosted. That's where I see a big opportunity for PEAR in the future: Well known existing applications like Smarty, Phorum or sth. similar can make full usage of the PEAR installer by simply providing package definitions and/or .tgz-files containing their releases. They don't need to conform to the coding standards of PEAR or need to change their hosting situation, but they can use our infrastructure for easy publishing. >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. It should be posssible (in the future) to install webapps that put files into a pre-defined directory in the virtual host tree (like /var/www/www.mydomain.com/var/), which is editable by the user via FTP, telnet or SSH. Actually I'm not sure how far Stig went with this, but he can surely clue us in. - Martin -- Martin Jansen - mail@martin-jansen.de http://martinjansen.com/