[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 4 Jun, 11:32, Graham Charters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In the dependencies section for 1.2.1 we list "PEAR Package: sdo", >> which links to something athttp://pear.php.net/package/sdo- which >> clearly doesn't exist. > > It appears to be coming from the MakePackage.php script. the line, > > $packagexml->addDependency('sdo', false, 'not', 'pkg');
This line came from the time of the package name change, last November. I introduced it to try to ensure that the SCA_SDO package would not be installed alongside the SDO package, with resulting chaos. If you RTFM (http://pear.php.net/reference/PEAR_PackageFileManager-0.1/PEAR_PackageFileManager/PEAR_PackageFileManager.html) you'll see that its intent is to declare an incompatibility between the two packages. It causes this entry in the <deps> section of the package.xml: <dep type="pkg" rel="not" optional="no">sdo</dep> However if you look back through previous release dependencies on the package page, you'll see that the confusing entry only started to appear with release 1.1.2, in February, that is, not in 1.1.0 or 1.1.1 which had the same line in their MakePackage script. I don't know what caused the behaviour to change, but since we're still back at the V1 package file format, which is deprecated, we can hardly complain. RTFM'ing again (a dangerous habit, I know) at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/developers.packagedef.php#guide.developers.packagedef.deps, I note that rel="not" is only stated to work with type="ext" or type="php". But we shouldn't use it to declare a dependency on a certain level of the sdo extension, because the package installs the extension (at least on *IX), and the chicken might not have been present before the egg. What I've done is check in a change to declare a conflict dependency on the sdo_das_xml extension. This isn't a good test, because the change of package name was not simultaneous with dropping sdo_das_xml as a separate extension, but it may help sometimes. Mind you, we won't know how this gets represented on the package page until either we upload another release or someone reads the peclweb code to find out :-). What we should be doing is migrating to package file V2 format ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "phpsoa" group. To post to this group, send email to phpsoa@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/phpsoa?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
