Re: Re: About that PECL versioning thing
| From: | Gregory Beaver | Date: | Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:27:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: About that PECL versioning thing | ||
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Steph Fox wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
>> This kind of meta-data doesn't belong in a package.xml, but it would
>> make perfect sense to host it through REST on pecl.php.net. Don't
>> forget, package.xml is used by external channels as well, and they have
>> completely different requirements.
>>
>> package.xml is intended to be used by the pear installer to install
>> packages and provide essential metadata only.
>
> This is the discussion I'm postponing - but the sort of metadata I'm
> talking about would need to be available via pyrus if that's humanly
> possible? Basically it shouldn't be difficult to find this kind of
> information. In my dreams etc.
Pyrus/PEAR installer grabs lots of information from REST, and uses it
for things like remote-list/list-all/list-upgrades. These commands
never touch package.xml, so yes, it would be accessible.
Greg