CPANesque class distribution (was SQL abstraction)

> We should seriously start considering implementing something > like CPAN in PHP, so we have defined ways of distributing and > installing standard packages. > > - Stig I think the hard part of this is the namespace conventions, not so much the distribution mechanisms. How does CPAN arbitrate who gets to add what modules where in the module namespace? Is there a default 'library' include path that should get compiled into PHP (ala Perl's (eg) /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) and then the class install procedure could put the files under that? -dave