Re: PEAR Status

On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 08:37:41PM +0200, Ulf Wendel wrote: > I would like to develop some kind of standards for each of these topics > before making PEAR "public": > > - inline documentation We decided to go with the "official" javadoc documentation conventions for the Horde packages: http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html > - documentation (API, cookbook, reference, integration into php.net) This would cover conversion to XML so it could be dumped into the jade rendering chain, then? > - error handling Yeah, this is a big one. At this point, it seems that each package just defines its own return values (FOO_OK = 1, FOO_ERROR = -1, ...). This is only discussed tangentially in the current http://pear.php.net/ (suggested) guidelines. > - how to I define what belongs to a package As in some sort of manifest? > - installation of packages > - configuration of packages These are biggies, too. Is the goal to move toward something like CPAN? -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member