[PHP-DEV] Re: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [PHP-DEV] PEAR and 4.3 release

[Alexander Merz]

Andrei Zmievski wrote:

> I don't think that PHP 4.3.0 and PEAR have such a big interdependency.
> 4.3.0 can go out without having all the minute details of PEAR
> management decided.
+1, only the installer stuff + package browser should really be stable 
and usable with php4.3



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[PHP-DEV] Re: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [PHP-DEV] PEAR and 4.3 release

[Alexander Merz]

Lukas Smith wrote:

> The point is that PEAR needs to be ready on all levels (technical and
> community) before it should go public. If PEAR will go public with php
> 4.3 then it needs to be complete in that respect. The damage to PEAR if
> this is not the case will be great and will take a long time to fix (if

PEAR is already in the wild, daily questions on newsgroups and mailing 
lists show it, the download rates of packages from pearweb too.

It going on my nerves to answer such question like "Why isn't the 
package browser directly avaible?"

Also take a look on Google for Postings and Websites linking to
"http://pear.php.net/package-info.php..."; - a lot of them are not 
written by PEAR-Devs.

With waiting for a 'perfect' PEAR, we could lost a lot of existing early 
adopters as multipliers, because they loosing credibility for announcing 
"vaporware".

And the number of popular PEAR users grows daily, believe it or not: 
even "Mr. PHPLib" Kristian Koehntopp recommened PEAR in a posting in 
de.comp.lang.php recently. (unfortunatly not avaible through google)


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Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposed updates and extensions to the MySQL extension

[Alexander Merz]

> Create an OO-based wrapper for the MySQL extension. The wrapper would 
> provide the user with access to all of a database's information without 
Yeah, lets re-invent PEAR:DB :) 

Such things are already on the ToDo list for PEAR::DB.


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Re: [PHP-DEV] Writing own extension on Win

[Alexander Merz]

> You need to make sure
> COMPILE_DL_(EXTENSION)
> is defined...

Was the error. Can somebody write an howto for win? I work since 10am to get
this stuff working.


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Re: [PHP-DEV] Chora installed

[Alexander Merz]

> I think it looks really good and we should probably make it the default
> for http://cvs.php.net.  Anybody see any reason not to do that?
+1

Please, could you use relative specifications ("font-size: small") instead of
absolute ("font-size: 11px") in the css? It's more user-friendly and i don't
have to look for my eyeglasses each time.


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Re: [PHP-DEV] Package extension proposal

[Alexander Merz]

> AM>> 2.) the PEAR-Installer create a package file of the 'your'
> AM>> format from the XML package file
> maybe would be better. Let's see what other people think.

I forgot a possiblity, one task of the installer should be to store data of the
installed pear-packages in flat-file database. This is'nt implemented yet, but
it maybe a starting point for a good solution.


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Re: [PHP-DEV] Stack overflow in ext/pcre

[Alexander Merz]

>   When running pear/PHPDoc php.exe (built from current CVS) crashes on
>   Win32.
set mem_limit to high value ( >32MB), running PHPDoc over PEAR is a hardcore
test...


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[PHP-DEV] Re: [PEAR-DEV] PHPDoc Future

[Alexander Merz]

> 1.) C:   ext/phpdoc   => simple XML (doc comments unparsed)
> 2.) PHP: standard_doctool => generates standard_intermediate XML
What would be the different between this two types of XML? And how compatible
will the xml-output to the existing xml-output?


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Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Module for reading/writing Palmtop .PDB files..

[Alexander Merz]

> What's this PECL ?
> PHP's Enormously Cool Library ?
Yes ;-)
please take a look on:
http://pear.php.net/faq.php

> Or if the MODULE is under GPL.. cos.. heck, I'll make LGPL..
PEAR requires at least an OpenSource compatible license.


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Re: [PHP-DEV] Chora installed

[Alexander Merz]

> > I'm completely open to better solutions, but haven't actually be able to
> > find any.  We _could_ start browser sniffing I guess.
> My experience is that you have to make fonts slightly bigger for
> Netscape 4.x on X11 and Opera.
It would not be simpler to avoid the use of font-size?


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Re: [PHP-DEV] Package extension proposal

[Alexander Merz]

> package_load("Name")
> package_is_loaded("Name")
> package_set_path("path")

+1

> 3. The package definition file has format like the following:
PEAR has already a XML-based package file format, which is already used
for installation and information retrieving.


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Re: [PHP-DEV] Package extension proposal

[Alexander Merz]

> Is it documented somewhere?
The DTD is in php4/pear/package.dtd

> Also, I fear that XML would be too slow for time-critical operation like
> including files on runtime, but I might be mistaken.
Could be possible.
Solutions:
1.) creating a c-function, which parses the xml-file
2.) the PEAR-Installer create a package file of the 'your' format from the XML
package file


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