Re: official docs for package.xml 2.0 will be on pear.php.net tomorrow

Sara Golemon wrote:

This is all probably making mountains out of mole hills. Those 1% of packages/extensions which require funky dependencies can probably be dealt with through documentation far more easily.

Here's another thought - why can't the dependency script simply be in the php code, or perhaps in an internal checker as part of the makefile for a pecl script, so a fatal error greets the first run attempt if conditions aren't met? Then you could simply use optional dependencies to alert the user that one or more options should be installed. Greg