Re: Re: PEAR and Smarty

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Martin Jansen wrote: > 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. I agree. > >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. Haven't gotten around to it yet, but the idea is to let users choose between a virtual host setup ala www.appname.example.com or a subdirectory setup ala www.example.com/appname/. - Stig