Re: A virtual file system

On Sun Sep 22, 2002 at 10:4035PM -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: > Quoting Jon Parise <jon@php.net>: > > > I'm largely indifferent. On one hand, it's a fairly generic component > > that will no doubt be useful to others. On the other hand, a bunch of > > the Horde components are starting to rely on these Horde libraries, > > and adding the code to PEAR would no doubt create something of a fork. > > > > Our users have all sorts of trouble getting PEAR components running > > (we require the Log package, for instance), and this would just > > introduce another dependency for them to tackle[1]. > > This sums up my feelings, too. > > I have a suggestion, though: PEAR is supposed to allow distribution of code > that isn't actually in the PEAR CVS repository. Why don't we add a > package.xml to Horde's CVS and generate a tarball that will allow anyone to > install just the VFS libraries as a PEAR component. I agree that this is probably the best solution for all. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/