Re: RFC on merge of PHPLib and Pear

[Ulf Wendel <ulf.wendel@phpdoc.de>] > > I'm not really happy with a "pre-pear" repository. This would mean that > for all time packages that get developed by more than one person start > in another CVS but the PEAR repository :/ which complicates > contributions and stops people helping. > > Rember the cool book of Tobias (Ratschiller) and Till (Gerken) and their > chapter on the project layout. They suggest a development, a staging and > a life server. I'm afraid we will not get this on php.net. At PHPLib we > used a release conzept plus a dev and a life CVS. Releases will not work > for PEAR as no one has the time to prepare releases. I believe releases will work for PEAR, but only package by package (for example, DB distributed separately, or maybe even split into a DB base package and one for each database). A monolithic release model like PHPLib's will not work, I agree. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway