On 08/19/2011 03:12 PM, Sören Eberhardt-Biermann wrote: > Hi, > > I just downloaded the Text_Diff Package from Horde. The package has > quite large dependencies in the Horde framework. > In eXtplorer I'm using different PEAR packages, with various > dependencies - so switching to Horde_Text_Diff would blow up eXtplorer > even more (+172kb). I must always think of having to disribute the > package outside of the Debian world. And there it's the best to have a > small package (<2MB). > > But besides that I'm sure that changing the code to use Horde_Text_Diff > wouldn't be difficult... > > Sören
Hi Soren, Thanks for your insight and quick reply, it's really appreciated to have a reactive upstream author, and your prompt reply over the last months is pushing me to trust you even more. 1/ Few remarks about embedding libraries What I think would be great would be that, inside your (upstream) packaging, would be if you separated the libraries you are using more clearly. Because currently, it might be possible for us, doing the Debian packaging, to miss some embedded things. This just happened with php-text-diff when Roland wanted to package a more recent version, it might happen again. Ideally, you'd have a "3rdparty-library" folder that we would just delete for the use in Debian. That's just a suggestion though, but that would really help us. If you can't do that, then having a text file listing the embedded files would be ok too. That way we could write a script like this: embedded_files=`cat embedded_files` for i in $embedded_files ; do rm -r $i ; done instead of having to maintain a script to do it. Anyway, Roland, when you are packaging a software, I would suggest you to systematically check the upstream files, since even upstream can sometimes forget some things he embedded (it happened once with eXtplorer too). 2/ php-text-diff / horde-text-diff For php-text-diff, I don't see much other possibility than using the new one from Horde if it is the only one that is maintained. Even for your embedded version inside the released eXtplorer, using a PEAR package that isn't maintained is dangerous, if an issue raises. By the way, there is currently an ongoing effort to package all the PEAR modules of Horde (in fact, there's an ongoing effort to package horde itself), which is why the "pkg-php-tools" was created. I think it'd be worth to ask in [email protected] what is the status of the package. Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
