On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
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> Thomas is also working on this, please get in touch...
Thanks, we are. Thomas saw the commit notification and e-mailed me.
Eric
>
> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 10:03 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote:
>> With the webstack project coming, I took a look at ways PHP add-ons could
>> integrate into add-on F/OSS repos like SFE. PHP has a system for that kind of
>> thing called PEAR -- PHP Extension and Application Repository (like Perl's
>> CPAN system). So to start the ball rolling, I came up with a scheme
>> and used it in five new spec files as examples (comments welcome of course).
>>
>> One key thing is that PEAR has its own package registry, so its necessary to
>> have %post and %preun blocks to handle that. The good thing is, through the
>> of a couple "%defines", those blocks are the same across spec files.
>>
>> In fact what's nice about this kind of thing in general (as with Mike and
>> Glynn's CPAN specs) is that a re-usable "archetype" spec file is possible.
>> For example, here's the (small) difference between two typical PEAR spec
>> files:
>>
>> 9,10c9,10
>> < %define topcat XML
>> < %define Pname %{topcat}_RPC
>> ---
>>> %define topcat Net
>>> %define Pname %{topcat}_SMTP
>> 12,14c12,14
>> < Name: SFEphp-xml-rpc
>> < Summary: PHP package: XML-RPC protocol
>> < Version: 1.5.1
>> ---
>>> Name: SFEphp-net-smtp
>>> Summary: PHP package: SMTP protocol
>>> Version: 1.2.8
>> 22a23,24
>>> Requires: SFEphp-net-socket
>>> Requires: SFEphp-auth-sasl
>> 65,66c67,68
>> < # %dir %attr (0755, root, bin) %{phplibdir}/docs
>> < # %{phplibdir}/docs/*
>> ---
>>> %dir %attr (0755, root, bin) %{phplibdir}/docs
>>> %{phplibdir}/docs/*
>>
>>
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