Re: Odp: [PHP-PEAR] Installation

Lukasz Felsztukier wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stig Bakken <Stig.Bakken@fast.no> > To: Tobias Ratschiller <tobias@dnet.it> > Cc: <php-pear@lists.php.net> > Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 2:51 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP-PEAR] Installation > > | Tobias Ratschiller wrote: > | > > | > Hey! > | > > | > How will Pear packages be installed? What provisions will be taken to > | > associate meta information (description, author, requirements, ...) with > | > packages? > | > | The idea is to put an XML file in each package distribution with all the > | meta information. There is no DTD yet, so here's a format suggestion: > | > | <?xml version='1.0'?> > | <package> > | <packagename>Some/Package</packagename> > | <originator>POOH</originator> > | <maintainer sameas="originator"/> > | <version type="stable">1.0</version> > | <version type="devel">2.0</version> > | <copyright sameas="originator"/> > | <summary>Some package to do something</summary> > | <description>Full description of the package</description> > | </package> > | > This maybe is not a Pear-related question, but how (from under php ofcoz') can I > distract version, packagename and so on from the above using php script ? > Cheers, > Lukasz By using some of PHP's XML functions? :-) See http://www.php.net/manual/ref.xml.php3. There is also an XML DOM extension in the works, but it's not in the manual yet. - Stig